Robert K. Porter
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Robert "Bob" Knight Porter (b. 1874 - d.1953) was born June 28, 1874 in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois.
He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1896 where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Chi fraternities. Robert taught Latin in the Urbana High School for several years prior to moving to Prescott from Illinois on January 20, 1900.
His first long-term position was with the Prescott Electric Company. After the sale of that company to the Arizona Power Company he was employed by the Prescott National Bank and the Commercial Trust Company. In 1915 he was appointed cashier of the Bank of Jerome, later becoming manager of the branch office of The Bank of Arizona in Jerome. He was transferred to The Bank of Arizona office in Prescott in 1933. Robert was associated with banking in Yavapai County from1915 until his retirement in 1943.
Robert was in a San Francisco hotel at the time of the 1906 Earthquake and survived.
He was the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the First Frontier Days in 1913. Robert was a life member and a past master of Aztlan Lodge F. and A.M. of Prescott, and a life member of the Jerome Lodge, B.P.O. Elks.
He married Miss Florence Charlebois of Ventura, California and they had a son, Robert K. Porter Jr.
Handwriting on photograph reads: "Robert K. Porter of Prescott."
Robert died September 22, 1953 in Prescott.
No burial information found.
Sources: Arizona, Yavapai County, Voting Records 1875-1932; US Census 1920;1930, 1940; Weekly journal-miner 3-14-1900, 4-23-1902,12-7-1904,4-21-1906, 6-8-1910, 7-23-1913.
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