Santa Cruz County Biographies

WARREN R. PORTER

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        One of the prominent Native Sons and prominent young business men of the 
southern part of the county is W. R. Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Porter.
He was born in Santa Cruz March 30, 1861, and attended the public schools of 
this county, afterwards attending St. Augustine College at Benicia, where he 
graduated in 1880. After graduating he was for three years bookkeeper at the 
bank of Watsonville, and on the 1st of April, 1884, accepted the position of 
Secretary of the Loma Prieta Lumber Company, in which position he has continued 
ever since.
        Mr. Porter is an intelligent and progressive young man. He is a 
stockholder and one of the directors of the Pajaro Valley Bank, and has other 
business interests not usually acquired by a man of his age.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891