Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Porter, Kirk Bancroft July 4, 1870 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

KIRK BANCROFT PORTER, Insurance Man. Coming to Hawaii when a small child with 
his father, the late Frank Ford Porter, Kirk B. Porter spent three boyhood 
years on the sugar plantation of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., where 
his father was the first superintendent, from 1879 to 1882, and, after going 
back to the mainland for a few years, he returned to the islands to make his 
permanent home here. Associated with his father, Mr. Porter opened the Porter 
Furniture Co. in Honolulu, and operated it for fourteen years. In 1906 he sold 
the business, and later was appointed secretary of the territorial Board of 
Health. For eleven years Mr. Porter served in this position and in 1923 he 
went to the Henry Waterhouse Trust Co. to write insurance. He is cashier of 
the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., of which A. N. Campbell, of the Henry 
Waterhouse Trust Co., is the general agent.
  Mr. Porter was born in Santa Cruz, Calif., July 4, 1870. His mother is 
Antoinette (Bailey) Porter, and he is a nephew of the late Theodore C. Porter, 
minister of finance for Hawaii under the Provisional Government. He was 
educated in the public schools of California. In 1905 he married Edna Brown of 
New York City, and they have one daughter, Antoinette B. Porter, a student at 
Punahou. Mr. Porter is a Mason, Shriner and a member of the Commercial Club.


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