Bio: Porter, John F. (1881)
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Surnames: Porter, Machatanz

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 565

JOHN F. PORTER, of the firm of Porter Bros., proprietors of tannery, on the west side of the river, half a mile south of Wausau. Mr. J. F. Porter resides at Red Wing, Minn., where he also owns a large tannery. They erected their tannery and began business in Wausau in the Summer and Fall of 1881. The capacity is 22,000 sides per year. They employ fifty men during the year. They came to Wausau, November, 1880, and selected the site for their tannery. Mr. Porter lived in St. Paul six years before going to Red Wing, Minn. He has followed the tannery business since he came West. He was born in Antioch, Monroe Co., Ohio, May 7, 1843. He was married in Winchester, Ill., March 1, 1870, to Louise Machatanz, who was born in Germany, June, 1847. They have four children — Bertha L., George F., Edward H., and Ina.