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name of a former French proprietor, was settled by Col. Porcher for
his son, William, who after graduating at the S. C. College applied himself to the study of medicine.and after taking his diploma embarked on the practice of his profession. In 1824 he married Isabella, daughter of Francis Peyre of St. Stephens. In 1832 he was elected a member of the convention which passed the ordinance of nullification; he died in 1833. He was an intelligent physician, and a public spirited man, very passionately devoted to the study of botany; his untimely death was a loss to science. He left four sons and two daughters. All his sons entered zealously into the war. His eldest William was killed on John's Island in 1864. His youngest, Alexander, suffered the hardship of imprisonment for several months at Fort Delaware. The second. Dr. F. Peyre Porcher3 was repeatedly at the head of different hospitals, and Julian, the third, was from the beginning to the end of the war continually in the service. |
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