Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-03-05
Agra, British India, March 8, '03.
n. v. Porter, Bismarck, N. D.
Your father died this morning
heart affection. instruct about
burial.
Hotel Metropole.
Hotel Metropole.

UOteI MetrOpOIe.
The receipt of the %cablegram adj
dressed to his son conveying the an
nouncement of the sudden death Of
DIR. II. r. Porter at Agra, India, was a
shock to this community and the veri-
fication of the news and a realization
of the fact that another distinguished
citizen and popular old timer had
come to the end of life's travels
causes gloom and sadness in Bismarck,
the city he loved so well, and especi-
ally sad are the hearts of those warm
personal friends who knew him best.
1t was with some reluctance that he
started out on this last tour of the
oriental countries without a compan-
iona personal friend from his own
home-and until a month before his
departure in December he had hopes
Of success in ~persuading Mr.. Jack
man to go with him. To personal
friends he had confided the desire of
having a friend with him in case Of
accident or trouble, and particu-
larly for social companionship. But
the doctor made friends readily
wherever he went and in one of his
last letters to the editor of The Trib-
une speaks of a friend from San Fran
Identified as he has been with the
whole history of Bismarck his sud-
den death causes universal sorrow and
regret.
His son, Henry ". now at Glendive,
expected in Bismarck this afternoon.
and Harry Douglas, probably his most
intimate personal friend and business
associate. will come up from Mime
apolis in a day or two. to look after
the estate. 1t is understood that the
executors named in the last will of
the doctor are attorney Frank Regis.
ter and II. F.. Douglas.
The son desires that the body of
his father be embalmed and shipped
to Oberlin. Ohio, for burial. and an
effort to comply with this request is
being made.
DR.. Porter was born in Lee Center
Oneida county. New York, Feb. 10
l84S. n was the son of Henry N
Porter, also a doctor, as was also his
grandfather. Two sisters now live il
Washington, d. G. DIR. Porter com
pleted his literary education at White
stone seminary in New York state
and commenced the study of medicine
with his father in 1868. In 1869 he
entered the University of Michigan
and after a year at that institution
spent a year abroad in England ant
Scotland. his mother being a native
of Scotland. He then entered George
town University, d. c., and graduated
from the medical department in 1872
That same year DR.. Porter was ap
pointed acting assistant rye il
the regular army and assigned to
General Crooks command then il
Arizona. He spent a year and a hal
in Arizona in the Apache campaign
and participated in a dozen or NOR.
bloody battles with the redskins. HI
was specially mentioned in genera
orders by General Crook for gallantry
in the engagement in Superstition
Mountains. Jan. IS, 1873. and AGAR
for conspicuous bravery in following
engagements.
In 1873 the doctor was transferred tC
Bismarck, N. D.. as post a
Camp Hancock (now the site of the
weather bureau) with General Gus
ter, remaining with Clusters command
until the last charge and massacr,
of the idol of the Seventh CA Airy
DR.. Porter was with Reno's command
at the time of the massacre at the Lit
tie Big Horn, June 25, 1876, and wa,
one of the heroes of that awful event
He came down the Yellowstone il
charge of the wounded of Reno's com
mand on the famous trip of Captain
Grant Marsh's steamer Far West. Thi
steamboat also brought the first inteI
ligence to the outside world of tn
massacre of General Custer and hi
entire command.
DR.. Porter was as brave as he wa
kindly and sympathetic in nature
On the field of battle. in the face @
bullets and poisoned arrows tina
brought many Of his comrades to tn
ground he never flinched. but as
kind samaritan hastily dressed tn
wounds of those whom he though
could survive and on moro than or
occasion narrowly escaped ambus
and massacre by remaining on tn
battle ground with the wounded {
in endeavors to assist the wounded
keep up with the command so thu
!, they might not become the victims
horrible mutilation. Colonel Bentee
known as the fighting general, said
him, after the massacre of the Lift
|, Big Horn: II know Of no doctor
, the regular corps who would have pc
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