He was born in Canandaigua, New York, the nephew of Peter Buell Porter and attended Canandaigua Academy, He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1818, studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Detroit, Michigan. He was treasurer of the Michigan Pioneer Society in 1837. He became the recorder of Detroit in 1830 and was mayor of Detroit from 1838-1839. He resigned as mayor to run for the Senate.
He moved to his father’s residence in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1848 and died at there on September 18, 1872. He is interred in Oakwood Cemetery in Niagara Falls, New York.
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Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000437)
Augustus Seymour Porter (January 18, 1798 – September 18, 1872) was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan.
He was born in Canandaigua, New York, the nephew of Peter Buell Porter and attended Canandaigua Academy.
He graduated from Union College, in Schenectady, New York, in 1818, studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Detroit, Michigan.
AugustusPorter preceded his brother to western New York when the land was still clothed in virgin timber and the Seneca still held rights to all the land west of the Genesee River.
Augustus was primarily a surveyor, marking boundaries for the enormous land purchases of Phelps and Gorham east of the Genesee River, and later for the Holland Land Company, which owned 3.3 million acres of western New York State.
AugustusPorter, who resided in the area of Niagara Falls opposite Goat Island, perhaps on the site of the homestead of John Stedman, had erected a large flouring mill, sold later to the Wetmore Brothers.
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