California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


ROBINSON R. PORTER. A thorough business man and a highly respected citizen of Malaga. 
R. R. Porter is conducting a general mercantile establishment as well as acting as 
postmaster of the town. The family of which he is a member came originally from England, 
the grandfather, William Porter, a native of Virginia, being the first born upon American soil. 
Later in life he removed to Elizabeth county, Ky., and there William Pike Porter was born. 
He married Nannie Robinson, also a native of the state. He removed to Lewis county, Mo., 
and abandoned his work of brick mason for that of farming, continuing so employed until his 
death at the age of sixty-eight years. 

Born in Lewis county, Mo., February 17, 1868, R. R. Porter was reared and educated among 
the surroundings of his birthplace, remaining 011 his father's farm until attaining the age of 
twenty years. In 1890 he came to California and located in the Malaga district, Fresno coun- 
ty, where he followed farming for three years, after which he engaged in the general merchan- 
dise business in Malaga in partnership with Frank S. Bagley. Disposing of his interests a 
little later he bought forty acres of land, where he engaged in raisin culture for six years. Re- 
turning to Malaga he purchased the store of Mr. Bagley in 1902, since which time he has carried 
on a successful business in the mercantile life of the community. 

Mr. Porter was married February 17, 1892, to Rose McCann, a native of Marion county, Mo., 
and daughter of Thomas McCann of Kentucky. They are the parents of the following children : 
Maurine, Beth, Roberta and Thomas. In his political preferment Mr. Porter is a Democrat. 
Fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of the World, being a member of the Fresno 
lodge. In his religious convictions he subscribes to the doctrine of the Baptist Church.