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   Porter
   Russell Williams
   R. W. P. ;
   postmistress in Port Clyde, Maine, Alice Marshall (18xx-19xx)
   daughter Caroline (1912-xxxx)
   1871 in Springfield, Vermont
   1949
   
   Frederick (18xx-1xxx)
   Caroline Porter (18xx-1xxx) (mother) ; 4 siblings
   Vermont Academy (grad. 1891), studies engineering at Norwich Univ.,later architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   United States of America
   as surveyor & artist for Frederick Cook's expeditions to Greenland 1893 & 1900, Baffin Island 1897, Labrador 1899, Fiala-Ziegler arctic expedition 1902-05 ; Scientific results obtained under the direction of William J. Peters, 1907 ; Nat. Bur. of Standards (prism design) ; George E. Hale ;
   var.observatories such as Mt. Palomar, Stellafane Obs. & Griffith Obs. for which he designed & sketched telescopes; Caltech;Scientific American (ill.)
   Stellafane Amateur Telescope-Makers movement in Springfield, Vermont ;
   technical drawing and pencilled technical halftone drawing ; cut-away ;
   www.weertman.com/bruce/porter/ ; www.khulsey.com/masters-russell-porter.html
   www.automotiveillustrations.com/illustrators/technical-illustrator-russell-porter.html & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_W._Porter with further links
   www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/april01/features/cutaway/cutaway.html
   After his arctic adventures, Porter settled in Port Clyde, Maine where he founded an artists' colony at Land's End & started farming but failed.
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