Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....La Porte, Adolphus M. September 16, 1844 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

ADOLPHUS M. LA PORTE,
a veteran soldier of the Army of the Potomac, and the present active and
efficient superintendent of the Juniata Mining and Manufacturing Company, is
a son of John and Mary A. (Jones) La Porte, and was born near Franklinville,
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1844. The La Portes are of
French ancestry, and the paternal grandfather of Mr. La Porte was a native of
France.
   Adolphus M. La Porte attended the common schools of Franklin township and
Millwood academy, of Shade Gap, Huntingdon county, until 1862, when he
enlisted in Co. A, 125th Pennsylvania infantry, in which he served nine
months. At the expiration of his term of service he re-enlisted, and served
in Battery L, 2nd Pennsylvania artillery, until February 12, 1866, when he
was honorably discharged from the Federal service at Philadelphia. He was in
the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor, and
in all of the engagements in front of Petersburg, where his regiment was
among the first to break ground in front of that stronghold of the
Confederacy. He was wounded in the foot at Cold Harbor, and after returning
home from the army attended Millwood academy for some time. He then (July,
1867,) became a clerk in the iron works office of Lyon, Shorb & Co., of
Pennsylvania Furnace, with whom he remained until in August, 1874, having
served in the meantime as a clerk and book-keeper in the office and
superintendent of mines.  In the fall of 1874 he received an appointment in
the railway mail service, between New York city and Pittsburg, and had charge
of a postal car from February, 1876, to the autumn of 1884, when he resigned
to accept his present position as superintendent of the Juniata Mining and
Manufacturing Company.
   On May 2, 1870, Mr. La Porte married Martha Diven, of Newville, Cumberland
county, who died January 2, 1872, at the age of twenty-eight years, and left
one child, a daughter, named Martha D., who is now attending the college at
Bryn Mawr. Mr. La Porte was re-married on February 21, 1881, to Myra Porter,
daughter of George B. Porter, of Alexandria.
   Since May, 1881, Mr. La Porte has been a resident of Tyrone, where he has a
pleasant home. He is a stanch Republican in politics, and has been for
several years an active member and a deacon of the First Presbyterian church
of Tyrone. A. M. La Porte is a practiced and thorough business man, has made
a first-class record as a mine superintendent, and is a man of prominence and
influence in the community where he resides.

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