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Surnames: Porter, Davis, Frazier,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: Porter, Davis, Frazier,
CHALMER ORIEN PORTER is president of the Decatur Cooperage Company, one of the old
established and very prosperous industries of Adams County. The mill at Decatur has been
in operation for about fifteen years. Its chief output is coiled elm hoops, but the plant
also manufactures other copperage supplies, including egg case ends and centers, poultry
coops, crating, box material and lumber. The material for the most part is elm timber,
purchased from farmers within a radius of thirty or forty miles around Decatur,
supplemented by occasional shipments of logs from other sections of Indiana and the
adjacent states of Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. The Decatur Cooperage Company works up
between one and a half and two million feet of logs annually, producing fifteen million
coiled elm hoops, which are shipped to the large apple orchards over the East and also to
the Middle West for making barrels for crockery ware, glass ware, salt, sugar, vegetables,
castings and other commodities.!
The company employs about fifty men, with an annual payroll of $60,000, and the average
volume of sales for the year is about $200,000. Mr. Porter was born at Salem in Adams
County, July 14, 1898. His father, John Porter, was born in Licking County, Ohio, and
during his active life was engaged in the contracting business. John Porter married Sarah
I. Davis, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, June 22, 1856, and died May 21, 1925.
Both parents are buried in the Maplewood Cemetery at Decatur. They were married in 1878
and had a family of eight children, Chalmer 0. being the youngest. Frank, the oldest, was
born December 7, 1878, and was killed at Parker, Indiana, where he was buried. He first
married Flora Frazier, of Adams County, who died January 28, 1903, leaving a daughter,