Elam Porter, Esq. was among the killed at the frightful "Angola disaster," December 18, 1867.
Born in Hartford, Vt., April 27, 1837, and graduated at Tufts College, he had been a successful teacher in South Reading, Mass.
While there he pursued the study of law, under J. P. Healy of Boston, and was admitted to the Bar. Removing to Ohio, he had settled in Cincinnati, and was rapidly gaining a lucrative practice, winning meanwhile the love and respect of all with whom he had become associated.
A Universalist from thorough conviction, he was ever able and ready to give reasons for the faith he cherished. Wherever he was, he identified himself with our cause. In South Reading he was the Superintendent of the Sunday School. In Cincinnati he was a member of the Bible Class, in connection with the First Church. He felt and said, that no more promising opportunities for Christian labor were to be found, than in the Sunday School.
Few men have given greater promise of usefulness in the Church and in the world, and few so gifted in mind and heart.
At the time of the accident by which this noble young man met his death, he was on his way to visit his invalid mother in Vermont, and there to meet his affianced, to whom he was to be united on Christmas day.
The cars were thrown down the steep embankment, and the devouring element enveloped the ruins. Only a bunch of keys, with Mr. Porter's name and residence on the ring that bound them, was left to tell the tale.
His body, with many others, could not be identified.
Born in Hartford, Vt., April 27, 1837, and graduated at Tufts College, he had been a successful teacher in South Reading, Mass.
While there he pursued the study of law, under J. P. Healy of Boston, and was admitted to the Bar. Removing to Ohio, he had settled in Cincinnati, and was rapidly gaining a lucrative practice, winning meanwhile the love and respect of all with whom he had become associated.
A Universalist from thorough conviction, he was ever able and ready to give reasons for the faith he cherished. Wherever he was, he identified himself with our cause. In South Reading he was the Superintendent of the Sunday School. In Cincinnati he was a member of the Bible Class, in connection with the First Church. He felt and said, that no more promising opportunities for Christian labor were to be found, than in the Sunday School.
Few men have given greater promise of usefulness in the Church and in the world, and few so gifted in mind and heart.
At the time of the accident by which this noble young man met his death, he was on his way to visit his invalid mother in Vermont, and there to meet his affianced, to whom he was to be united on Christmas day.
The cars were thrown down the steep embankment, and the devouring element enveloped the ruins. Only a bunch of keys, with Mr. Porter's name and residence on the ring that bound them, was left to tell the tale.
His body, with many others, could not be identified.
Elam Porter, Esq. was among the killed at the frightful "Angola disaster," December 18, 1867.
Born in Hartford, Vt., April 27, 1837, and graduated at Tufts College, he had been a successful teacher in South Reading, Mass.
While there he pursued the study of law, under J. P. Healy of Boston, and was admitted to the Bar. Removing to Ohio, he had settled in Cincinnati, and was rapidly gaining a lucrative practice, winning meanwhile the love and respect of all with whom he had become associated.
A Universalist from thorough conviction, he was ever able and ready to give reasons for the faith he cherished. Wherever he was, he identified himself with our cause. In South Reading he was the Superintendent of the Sunday School. In Cincinnati he was a member of the Bible Class, in connection with the First Church. He felt and said, that no more promising opportunities for Christian labor were to be found, than in the Sunday School.
Few men have given greater promise of usefulness in the Church and in the world, and few so gifted in mind and heart.
At the time of the accident by which this noble young man met his death, he was on his way to visit his invalid mother in Vermont, and there to meet his affianced, to whom he was to be united on Christmas day.
The cars were thrown down the steep embankment, and the devouring element enveloped the ruins. Only a bunch of keys, with Mr. Porter's name and residence on the ring that bound them, was left to tell the tale.
His body, with many others, could not be identified.
Born in Hartford, Vt., April 27, 1837, and graduated at Tufts College, he had been a successful teacher in South Reading, Mass.
While there he pursued the study of law, under J. P. Healy of Boston, and was admitted to the Bar. Removing to Ohio, he had settled in Cincinnati, and was rapidly gaining a lucrative practice, winning meanwhile the love and respect of all with whom he had become associated.
A Universalist from thorough conviction, he was ever able and ready to give reasons for the faith he cherished. Wherever he was, he identified himself with our cause. In South Reading he was the Superintendent of the Sunday School. In Cincinnati he was a member of the Bible Class, in connection with the First Church. He felt and said, that no more promising opportunities for Christian labor were to be found, than in the Sunday School.
Few men have given greater promise of usefulness in the Church and in the world, and few so gifted in mind and heart.
At the time of the accident by which this noble young man met his death, he was on his way to visit his invalid mother in Vermont, and there to meet his affianced, to whom he was to be united on Christmas day.
The cars were thrown down the steep embankment, and the devouring element enveloped the ruins. Only a bunch of keys, with Mr. Porter's name and residence on the ring that bound them, was left to tell the tale.
His body, with many others, could not be identified.
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