Benjamin Franklin Porter, M.D.

Benjamin Franklin Porter, M.D.

Member

Photo credit:

Lloyd, June. “Country Doctors Treated Many Ills in 19th Century York County.” Universal York (blog). USA Today, March 22, 2011. https://yorkblog.com/universal/.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1869 Representative Democrat
1870 Representative Democrat
Counties York

Biography

05/19/1827 - 06/16/1886


PORTER, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, a Representative from York County; born, May 19, 1827 in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, De.; attended, Delaware College (now University of Delaware); M.D., Jefferson Medical College (now, Sidney Kimmel Medical College), 1855; physician; school director, Chanceford Township; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1868 and 1869; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1870); died, June 16, 1886 in Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, New Harmony Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Brogue, York County, Pennsylvania.

 

 

Archival Collections

Papers of Dr. Benjamin F. Porter, York County History Center, Library and Archives, York, Pa.


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