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Porter, Augustus Seymour, 1798-1872

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Personal name headingPorter, Augustus Seymour, 1798-1872
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Variant(s)Porter, Mr. (Augustus Seymour), 1798-1872
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedDetroit (Mich.)
Birth date1798-01-18
Death date1872-09-18
Place of birthCanandaigua (N.Y.)
Place of deathNiagara Falls (N.Y.)
AffiliationUnion College (Schenectady, N.Y.) Detroit (Mich.). Mayor United States. Congress. Senate
Profession or occupationMayors Legislators
Found inIn Senate of the United States. April 3, 1844, 1844: p. 1 (Mr. Porter)
Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed July 18, 2008 (Porter, Augustus Seymour; a Senator from Mich.; b. Jan. 18, 1798; d. Sept. 18, 1872)
The descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Conn., in the line of his great, great grandson, Col. Joshua Porter, M.D. of Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., with some account of the families into which they married, 1882 page 33 (Augustus Seymour Porter born January 18, 1798 at Canandaigua, N.Y.; graduated Union College, 1818; moved to Detroit, Mich., 1827 and was mayor; U.S. Senator 1839-1845; moved to Niagara Falls in 1847; died September 18, 1872 in Niagara Falls)
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