Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: David Rittenhouse PORTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 31 Oct 1788 b
  • Death: 6 Aug 1867 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Andrew PORTER Birth: 24 Sep 1743 in Norristown, Pennsylvania Death: 16 Nov 1813 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth PARKER Birth: 23 Aug 1751 Death: 15 May 1821

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. William Agustus PORTER
  2. Andrew PORTER
  3. George W PORTER
  4. Henry PORTER
  5. Elizabeth PORTER
  6. Horace PORTER

Bibliography
  1. Helm, Emily Todd, "TODD Family, based on the manuscript of Emily Todd Helm", series of magazine articles in Kittochtinny Magazine, vol 1ff, 1905, p69-383 (with gaps). LDS FILM#0176612#1 (installments 1-3). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008703194 images 6-55. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Helm TODD p[0-9-]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Helm TODD p276],
parents:
[Ref: Helm TODD p174, Helm TODD p276]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Helm TODD p276],
place:
[Ref: Helm TODD p276]
Sources with Information about marriage to Josephine McDERMOTT
date:
[Ref: Helm TODD p276],
child:
[Ref: Helm TODD p276]
Research Notes:
studied law, but never practiced because of feeble health in his early life. As a young man he served as a clerk in the Surveyor General's office at Harrisburg under his father, and later settled in Huntington county, where he was a clerk at and afterward manager of Barree Forge. His first venture in the manufacture of iron was disastrous and his firm failed in 1819. Mr. Porter was active in politics from his youth. The first office that he held was County Auditor of Huntingdon county, to which he was elected in 1815. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative 1819-21, and 1822-23; Prothonotary and Clerk of the Courts of Huntingdon Co, 1823-36; Register and Recorder 1827-36; State Senator 1837-39; and Governor of Pennsylvania 1839-45. After retiring from the gubernatorial office he again engaged in the manufacture of iron,, and he built the first anthracite furnace erected at Harrisburg. [Ref: Helm TODD p276]



Pedigree of David Rittenhouse PORTER
                   /-----Robert PORTER
          /-----Robert PORTER
         |         \-----Eleanor ROGERS
 /-----Andrew PORTER
|        |         /-----John CHRISTY
|         \-----Lilliouo CHRISTY
|                  \-----Jane SMITH
David Rittenhouse PORTER
|                  /-----(Unk) PARKER
|         /-----William PARKER
 \-----Elizabeth PARKER
         |                           /-----John Or James TODD
         |                  /-----John TODD
         |                 |         \-----Isabelle PARKER
         |         /-----Robert TODD
         |        |         \-----Isabelle BODLEY
          \-----Elizabeth TODD
                   \-----Isabella HAMILTON



Descendants of David Rittenhouse PORTER
1. David Rittenhouse PORTER m. Josephine McDERMOTT
m. Josephine McDERMOTT father: William McDERMOTT