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st11 o'clock Tuesday night his condition
was about the same as it had been for
several weeks past, and there were no
indications that medical services would
be needed before the time for the doc
tors regular visit in the morning, about
Q o'clock. The nature of the Admiral's
disease made it extremely dangerous
for him to lie on his back, so that he
was accustomed to rest sitting upon a
large sofa with his back and head
supported by pillows. Nourishment
was administered every hour and the
Admiral was awake at Gas o'clock
and took his nOurishment as usual.
He afterwards fell into a light
sleep and gave no indication whatever
that the end was so near at hand AT
o'clock the Admirals son Richard, who
slept by his side, noticed that there was
a change in his fathers condition. He
was breathing with difficulty and
seemed to be choking. The nurse
felt his pulse and found it to
be huttering feebly. The house
hold was at once aroused and Dr.
Wales sent. The patients pulse grew
fainter and fainter and at S:15 o'clock
ceased to beat. At that hour he gasped
convulsively and expired without q
Richard holding one hand and his
daughter, Mrs. /. G. Logan, holding the
other. There were also at his bedside
his son, Lieutenant Theodore Porter,
o. S. N, and his sOn-in-law, Lieutenant
L. C. Logan, U. S. N, his nurse, James
Mcdonald, and his faithful man ser
want, William Wilkes.
His other son, Captain c. P. Porter,
o. 5. NJ. c., and Major D. E. Porter,
formerly of the army, and his youngest
daughter, Mrs. Charles Campbell, ar
rived soon after and joined the sorrow
ing group which had gathered in the
chamber Of the afflicted widow,
BIOGRAPHICAL
David Dixon Porter was born in Chester,
Pa, in 1913. and at the age OF II accompanied
his father, David Porter, naval officer, to
the West Indies. where piracy prevailed. In
1927 he was appointed a midshipman in the
Mexican navy. and in 1879 became m
American MILDLY" serving first in the
Mediterranean. He subsequently served
on tho coast survey, and in 1871 APP
pointed "A Lieutenant He was transferred
10 the naval observatory In Washington in
1878 and in 1876 was intrusted with secret
mission to Hayti- He was actively engugcd
n the Mexican war, first as Lieutenant
Afterwards as commander OF the Spitnre-
at the beginning OF the civil war he took
command or the PCwhatran and in April.
1861, was In charge OF the mortar ncet OF
twenty ono schoonsrs and I'VE steamers that
joined FarraEut's fleet in 1852. He took
part IN the bonn harding or Fort Jackson
and Fort st. Philip below New Orleans
and they surrendered 70 him IN 1852. He as
sisted FaFraRut ia all the operations between
Vioksburg and New Orleans While the Con-
fedcraEes at Wick sburg were making efforts
to repair the IndianOls. which they had capt
ured, Commander Porter fitted an old scoW
to look like one OF his turtle gunboats with
tive canoes for quarter boats, a smokestacH
OF pork barrels and mud furnace in which q
IRE built This craft was called the
TurEeted Monster and was set adrifs with no
one on board A Tremendous cannonads
from the Confederate failed 90 stop her ana
the authorities at yicksburg hastily de-
stroyed the IHdianoIa. while she supposed
monitor drifted for an hour before the enemy
discovered the trick.
In 1852 Porter, as Rear Admiral, took
charge Of the Mississippi squadron. tulpro-
Vissd she Mound City navy yard. Increased
his squadron to III vessels ana cO-operate6
with Sherman in the capture OF Arkansas
Post IN 1854 Congress thanked him for his
services at VIcksbuEs and he WEs commits
stoned Rear Admiral In July. I663- The same
year he ran the batter les as VicAsburg. capt
ursd the Confederate forts at Grand Gulf and
later assisted In the capture OF Fieksburs-
Re remained In the mississippi until 1865.
and Ia October OF that year was transferred
90 the North Atlantic squadron and IN ISIS
tanturesf the forts at the mouth OF the Cape
Fear river Including Fort FISHER. For this
he was again thanked by Congress.
BE was promoted 60 Vice Admiral In 1855
and served as super inEendent of the Naval
Academy until 1863 when he was detailed for
duty In the Navy Departments ct Washing
ton In 1870 he was appointed Admiral OF
the navy
Deceased came from q long line OF navy or
Goers. hve generations OF ancestors having