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Surgeon; professor of surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
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Miles Fuller Porter was the third generation of his family in Indiana medicine: his grandfather Alexander Porter was a pioneer physician at Decatur, and his father, Dr. John Pomeroy Porter (Rush Medical College, 1856), was assistant surgeon of the Eighty-ninth Indiana Infantry and was shot and killed by guerrillas in Missouri in the autumn of 1864. The son graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1878, practiced a year at Geneva, and came to Fort Wayne in 1879. From 1896 he gave his attention almost exclusively to surgery, holding the professorship of surgery in the Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis. He served as president of the Indiana State Medical Society, was formerly president of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and was a trustee of the American Medical Association. His son Miles F. Porter, Jr. (Williams 1907, Harvard M.D. 1911) joined his practice in Fort Wayne, the fourth generation of Porter physicians in the state. He married Lillian Anne Wilding on 19 June 1878.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketches (father and son) and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.