Representative Erwin Blake Porter View All Years
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Erwin Blake Porter
Delaware County
Representative from Delaware county, was born on a farm near Delhi, March 27, 1862. He was educated in the public schools of Delhi, and attended Lenox College at Hopkinton, Iowa. He taught school for a few years, and later followed mercantile pursuits until 1897, when he returned to the farm where he was born, where he still resides. In 1890 he organized the Silver Spring Creamery Co., and in 1914 was also the organizing power of the Farmers Shipping Association. Mr. Porter is a Baptist, and belongs to the grange, the farm bureau, and is an Odd Fellow. He served as town clerk for twenty years. Serving first term in the legislature. A democrat.
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