Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1910 — WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME.

J. C. Porter, Victim of Heart Failure, Passes Away Without a Moment’s Warning. John Calvin Porter, well known throughout Jasper county as Cal Porter, and one of the best known soldiercitizens of the city and county, died suddenly at about 10 minutes before 1 o’clock today (Tuesday). He had finished his dinner and was sitting on the sofa at his home at the corner of Cullen and Susan streets when he was seized with a sharp pain in his heart. His wife was near his side and he spoke of the severe pain and she stepped to the kitchen to get him a glass of water. He sank back on the sofa and when she came in he was unconscious. She called the family physician and he arrived in a very short time but death had ensued before his arrival. Mr. Porter was in poor health several years ago but during recent years had been in very good health. This morning he was up town and feeling as well as usual. His death was a great shock to the community and the news of it spread over town very repidly. He was about 66 years of age and served in the civil war with an Ohio regiment. He had resided in Jasper county since the war and was the owner of a quarter section of good land northwest of Rensselaer. For several years he was engaged in the coal business in Rensselaer. He was twice married, his second wife surviving him. One son, Charles W. Porter, by his first marriage, also survives, and one stepson, William Salter, of Kansas City.