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Porter met and began courting Athol Estes, then seventeen years old and from a wealthy family.
Porter and his family moved to Houston in 1895, where he started writing for the Post.
The assertion that the dream was that of Mr. Porter, whose dream personality personified itself as HCE, came from the critical idea that the dreamer partially wakes during chapter III. 4, in which he and his family are referred to by the name Porter.
Anthony Burgess representatively summarized this conception of the " dream " thus: " Mr. Porter and his family are asleep for the greater part of the book [...] Mr. Porter dreams hard, and we are permitted to share his dream [...] Sleeping, he becomes a remarkable mixture of guilty man, beast, and crawling thing, and he even takes on a new and dreamily appropriate name – Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker.
In " London: A Social History ", Roy Porter describes " Victorian villas in ... Kennington, long debased by use as lodging-houses, were transformed into luxury flats for young professionals or snips for first-time buyers or were repossessed by the class of family for whom they had first been built ..."; and " Chambers London Gazetteer " observes the " reuniting of formerly subdivided properties " as " decline is being reversed ".
David Farragut grew up in a naval family, as the adoptive brother of future Civil War admiral David Dixon Porter and commodore William D. Porter.
When he becomes incapacitated due to a fall, he returns to the family home to stay with his eccentric siblings-sister Rose and brothers Porter and Charles-whose odd habits include alphabetizing the groceries in the kitchen cabinets and ignoring the ringing telephone.
The Porter family moved from Madison to made their home in Marshall in 1860, and William F. Porter left in 1865 for Massachusetts, leaving his share of the property to his son William Henry Porter.
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Samuel begrudgingly offers his son a position in the family business, but Alfred is moving to New York to launch an aircraft business with his old friend Lex Porter.
Alexander, known to his friends as Porter, was born in Washington, Georgia into a wealthy and distinguished family of the planters of the Old South.
In 1874, the family sold their northern half of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando to northern Californians, California State Senator Charles Maclay and his partners George K. Porter, a San Francisco shoe manufacturer, and his brother Benjamin F. Porter.
In Israel, Porter transferred substantial parts of her great wealth to other members of her family and into secret trusts in an effort to avoid the charge, and subsequently claimed assets of only £ 300, 000.
The Labour Party in London has continued its pursuit of Porter and following the settlement, Porter has returned to Westminster to live, buying a £ 1. 5m flat with family money ( her husband and son John Robert Camber Porter are independently wealthy ) The former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, subsequently requested that Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, commence an investigation as to whether or not Porter committed perjury or other offences, during the conduct of the ' homes for votes ' case.
The daughter of Velma V. Porter, she moved to Indianapolis while still a girl and worked in various positions to support her family.

Porter and early
The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Parton toured as a member of Porter Wagoner's road show, as well as with a number of other country musicians, including George Jones and Linda Ronstadt.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, this show was probably the best-known showcase for popular country music on commercial television, aside from other half-hour performer-hosted syndicated shows ( most notably The Porter Wagoner Show, which is perhaps the only other weekly country music show of this era to approach Hee Haws longevity.
Porter is actually mentioned as early as 1721, but no writer before Feltham says it was made to replicate " three threads ".
The drinking of Porter, with its strength slot now occupied by single stout, steadily declined, and production ceased in the early 1950s.
In the early 19th century, Walter Scott wrote of Wallace in Exploits and Death of William Wallace, the " Hero of Scotland ", and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in 1810.
Porter resigned in early 1891 when the new governor was sworn in.
Several of her early 2000s films, including 2001's Someone Like You and 2002's High Crimes, received only mixed reviews and moderate box office success ; although she did receive positive recognition, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, for her performance in the 2004 biography of Cole Porter, De-Lovely, opposite Kevin Kline.
One early record of a kitchen is found in the 1648 inventory of the estate of a John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut.
In the biography John Coltrane: His Life and Music, published in 1999, Lewis Porter noted that ODJB's classic, " Margie ", was a " specialty " of John Coltrane, a song he performed regularly in his early career.
In the United States in the early 1920s articles in Popular Astronomy by Russell W. Porter and in Scientific American by Albert G. Ingalls featuring Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers helped expand interest in the hobby.
It was named after Harry Porter Deuel, an early pioneer in this area.
The town ’ s heritage is still celebrated today with the annual Lutefisk, Lefse and Swedish Meatball Supper at Bethel Lutheran Church ( Porter Norwegian Lutheran Church ) in early November.
The name of the community is from Archibald Porter, an early mill operator.
Actors known for their early support of SAG ( besides the founders ) include Edward Arnold, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Jean Hersholt, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morris, Jean Muir, George Murphy, Erin O ' Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Stanley, Gloria Stuart, Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, Warren William, and Robert Young.
After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.
He decided that, since the book said so little about antibodies, he would investigate them further upon returning to the United States, which led him to study physical chemistry for his 1960 Ph. D. Research by Edelman and his colleagues and Rodney Robert Porter in the early 1960s produced fundamental breakthroughs in the understanding of the antibody's chemical structure, opening a door for further study.
This alarmed the government and the people of Poverty Bay so much they shipped troops and artillery to Gisborne to form a military force of 377 under Major Porter in early 1889.
During the early 1900s this dam became Porter Glen Boating Lake.
The square, formerly flanked by cattle yards that used the Porter rail head to transport their beef throughout the US, was an important center for commerce and light industry as early as the late 18th century.
Ferry's later band Roxy Music had achieved success in the early 1970s, but having had some troubles with bass players, Ferry invited Porter on board to record the 1973 album For Your Pleasure.
Porter was a senior member of the Ku Klux Klan during its popular resurgence in the early 1920s
As a Navy veteran he was generally unaccustomed to the ways of deployment in land battle, yet he restored order after the invasion of Washington, coordinated efforts between the infantry and Secretary of the Navy William Jones, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Commodore David Porter forcing the early retreat of the British.

Porter and
" Porter described Atkins as respectful of musicians when recording if someone was out of tune he would not single that person out by name.
According to musician and author Albin Zak, the combination of the studio engineered by Bill Porter, who experimented with close miking the doo-wop backup singers production by Foster, and accompanying musicians, gave Orbison's music a " polished, professional sound ... finally allow ( ing ) Orbison's stylistic inclinations free rein ".
Legislator Clyde L. Burmaster ( 1st District Towns of Lewiston and Porter )
* Dr. J. Porter House 391 Belleview Ave.
* James D. Porter, Jr. Judge of the 12th Judicial Circuit of Tennessee 1870-1874, Tennessee governor 1875 – 1879, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company 1880-1884, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland 1885-1887, Minister to Chile under President Grover Cleveland 1893-1895, Chancellor of the University of Nashville 1901, President of Peabody Normal College 1902, later President of those two schools ' merging ( George Peabody College ) until 1909
* Katherine Anne Porter author
Cole Porter, " Anything Goes "
* James Cochran Porter founder of Monmouth Academy, 1852
* Eleanor H. Porter Pollyanna
John Porter Lucas ( January 14, 1890 December 24, 1949 ) was an American Major General and one of the commanders of VI Corps ( September 1943-February 1944 ) during the Italian Campaign of the Mediterranean Theater of World War II.
Hobson, however, who links under-consumption to a misdistribution of purchasing power, Porter argues that " the best thing that Britain could have done to correct balance of payments would have been to make her export industry more competitive improve her methods of manufacturing and marketing in order to sell more abroad.
* 1968 ( 34th ) Leonard Baskin, Edwin Dickinson, Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, James McGarrell, Reuben Nakian, Fairfield Porter
A number of other questionable shootings followed, including those of Dr. John Davis ( said by some to have been told to run and then shot when he did ) and Lt. Col. Frisby McCullough a subordinate of Porter who had no part in the battle, but was tried and sentenced to death as a bushwhacker, even though he was captured wearing a regular Confederate uniform and carrying letters authorizing him to recruit troops.
* January 14 Dana Porter, politician and jurist ( d. 1967 )
When his identity was confirmed, Smith was moved to say, " I prophesy, in the name of the Lord, that you Orrin Porter Rockwell so long as ye shall remain loyal and true to thy faith, need fear no enemy.
With the help of Commodore David Porter, and by sheer force of personality, José Miguel Carrera managed to obtain on credit five ships with American crews for the Chilean independence enterprise.
* Chicago Division Grand Rapids, Michigan to Porter, Indiana and ( via trackage rights over various lines ) Chicago, Illinois ( In use by CSX )
The Macross operators Vanessa Laird, Kim Kabirov, and Shammy Milliome ( Vanessa Leeds, Kim Young, and Sammy Porter in Robotech ) were three minor fictional characters in the first Macross series ( which was adapted as the first story arc of Robotech ).
* 1987: Matlock Michael Porter ( 1 episode, 1987 )

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