When Porter was born on 12 October 1897, in Indiana, United States, his father, Robert George Porter, was 27 and his mother, Daisy Mullendore, was 24. He died in 1897, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name, either for someone who worked as a carrier of goods (Old French porteour, from a derivative of Latin portāre ‘to carry’) or else for a gatekeeper (Old French portier, from a derivative of Latin porta ‘door, gate’).
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