Born: September 21, 1914
Died: December 26, 2003 (Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania)
Education:
Occupation:
- Licensed to Preach 1938
- Supply Pastor Methodist Pittsburgh Conference 1938
- Speers/Ebenezer/Allenport 1939-1940
- Haddenfield, NJ Youth Director 1940-1941
- Deacon 1943
- Towaco, NJ 1941-1943
- Admitted on Trial 1943
- Chaplain, United States Navy 1943-1946
- Full Member of the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference 1945
- Elder 1945
- Wilkinsburg, South Avenue Assistant 1946-1947
- Baden 1947-1951
- Kittanning: First 1951-1954
- Wilkinsburg: Mifflin Avenue 1954-1957
- Nashville, TN: Board of Education 1957-1959
- Member Western Pennsylvania Conference at Merger 1962
- Chippewa, PA 1959-1966
- Superintendent: Pittsburgh East District 1966-1969
- Member United Methodist Western Pennsylvania Conference at Union 1970
- Nashville, TN: Board of Education, Division of Higher Education (renamed Board of Higher Education and Ministry) 1969-December 1974
- Supernumerary December 1974-1976
- PA: Friendship Federal Savings and Loan 1976-1980
- Retired 1980
Where they lived: Pittsburgh, PA; Nashville, TN
Years Served: 1967-1975
Notes:
From the June 1966 Sundial:
Dr. Porter will fill the vacancy created in the resignation of Dr. Walter T. Preset of Pittsburgh. His term runs to 1967.
Dr. Porter became a Navy chaplain in the middle of World War II when he graduated from Drew University School of Theology with a bachelor of divinity degree. He earned his bachelor of arts at the University of Pittsburgh in 1940 and added his Ph.D. at Pittsburgh in 1956.
After the war, Dr. Porter was assistant pastor of the South Avenue Methodist Church in Wilkinsburg, Pa., and then served as pastor of churches at Baden, Kittanning, and then Mifflin Avenue Methodist Church in Pittsburgh.
There followed three years with the Methodist Board of Education in Nashville, Tenn., as a recruiter of ministerial students. He returned to the Pittsburgh area in 1959 and has been pastor of the Chippewa Methodist Church since that time.
Sources:
- Catalog: 1967-1968 through 1973-1974
- Sundial: June 1966
- Western Pennsylvania Conference Journal, 2004, pages 320-321
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