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He is associated with several landmarks, having established a grocery store and a small farm. His home was converted into Sirius
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Porter was a senior sea captain in the employ of the
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Australia with most of their children in October 1839. Their youngest child, Frederick Charles Porter, became an explorer and miner in the
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