Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 484.

ALBERT S. PORTER

     superintendent of the Sandow Milling & Warehouse Company, Wasco, Sherman
county, was born in Livingstone county, New York, February 19, 1855. He is a
twin brother of "Dell" Porter, a sketch of whom appears in another portion of
this work. His parents were Derrick and Jane (Shephard) Porter, mentioned
elsewhere.
     Our subject was reared on his father's farm in the county of his nativity,
where he received a good business education in the public schools in his
neighborhood. At the age of twenty-eight he went to Buffalo, New York, where he
was in the employment of the Buffalo Lubricating Oil Company four years, having
charge of the stills two years of this time. He was then associated with the
Barber Asphalt Paving Company and three years subsequently with the Ball
Brothers Glass Works. It was in 1893 that he came to Wasco where he has since
resided. He owns a pleasant home in the town, a story and a half house
surrounded by six acres of ground. During, the past seven years he has been
associated with the Sandow Flour Milling Company.
     April 13, 1880, at Mount Morris, Livingstone county, New York, he was
married to Miss Jennie R. Brinkerhoff, a native of that county. She is the
daughter of Rev. J. G. and Maria (Van Horn) Brinkerhoff, both natives of New
Jersey, the father a descendant of an old and prominent Knickerbocker family.
For many years the father was a preacher in the Dutch Reformed church. The
mother was also a member of a Knickerbocker family, and both families were
prominent in New York commercial and professional circles.
     Mrs. Porter, the estimable wife of our subject, has three sisters : Nettie,
wife of Fayette Frayer, a farmer in Iowa; Mina, wife of Michael Clause, a broom
manufacturer, near Schenectady, New York; Ida, wife of Jacob Essler, foreman of
an extensive farm near Nunda, New York.
     Mr. and Mrs. Porter have two children, girls, Grace, aged sixteen, and
Alberta, aged twelve. Both our subject and his wife are devout and consistent
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is trustee and Sunday
school superintendent and his wife a teacher in the same. Politically, he is a
Prohibitionist and for the past twelve years has been a delegate to all the
county conventions of that party. At every election he has been a nominee for
some office. Mr.: Porter is a good, clean-minded, liberal and progressive
citizen, popular with all and one who always has a good word for his neighbors
and acquaintances.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.