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Sanford Porter Jr.

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Sanford Porter Jr.

Birth
Vienna, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA
Death
12 Dec 1913 (aged 90)
Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA
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Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Son of Sanford Porter and Nancy Warriner. Served as a Private in Company "E" of the Mormon Battalion and came to Utah from California October 16, 1847. Married Emma Ensign July 25, 1852, (President's Office) Salt Lake City (daughter of Zophar Ensign and Priscilla Billings, latter a pioneer). She was born March 4, 1833, Spafford, Onondaga county, New York. Married Malinda Ann Porter July 25, 1852, (President's Office) Salt Lake City (daughter of Chauncy Warriner Porter and Amy Sumner), who was born July 9, 1836. Family resided at Porterville, Utah, and Sunset, Arizona. Married Virginia Anderson Kilgore, June 24, 1885 at Logan, Cache County, Utah.
Built first sawmill in Morgan County, Utah in 1854, in Hardscrabble Canyon, carrying the necessary machinery on pack mules over the Wasatch mountains from Centerville, Davis county. Assisted in settling The Muddy in southeastern Nevada in 1868. In 1877 made a visit to the valley of the Little Colorado river in northern Arizona; and in 1880 moved one of his families there, settling at Sunset in what is now Navajo county.
Son of Sanford Porter and Nancy Warriner. Served as a Private in Company "E" of the Mormon Battalion and came to Utah from California October 16, 1847. Married Emma Ensign July 25, 1852, (President's Office) Salt Lake City (daughter of Zophar Ensign and Priscilla Billings, latter a pioneer). She was born March 4, 1833, Spafford, Onondaga county, New York. Married Malinda Ann Porter July 25, 1852, (President's Office) Salt Lake City (daughter of Chauncy Warriner Porter and Amy Sumner), who was born July 9, 1836. Family resided at Porterville, Utah, and Sunset, Arizona. Married Virginia Anderson Kilgore, June 24, 1885 at Logan, Cache County, Utah.
Built first sawmill in Morgan County, Utah in 1854, in Hardscrabble Canyon, carrying the necessary machinery on pack mules over the Wasatch mountains from Centerville, Davis county. Assisted in settling The Muddy in southeastern Nevada in 1868. In 1877 made a visit to the valley of the Little Colorado river in northern Arizona; and in 1880 moved one of his families there, settling at Sunset in what is now Navajo county.

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