Porter, Nathaniel (2)

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Worcester, Mass., A.D. 1800. He studied at the Wesleyan Seminary in New York, and in 1823 was admitted to the New, York Annual Conference, from which time till his death, in 1832, lie labored ill that and other fields, chiefly ill the Middle States. For two years of this time he was principal of the academy at Cazenovia, giving great satisfaction. Mr. Porter was an excellent preacher, and a zealous and consistent Christian. See Minutes of Conferences, 2, 161.