This is a transcription of the Alice Rosalie (Hammond) Porter biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 31.
Alice Rosalie (Hammond) Porter
ALICE ROSALIE (HAMMOND) PORTER was born in Connecticut. Her ancestors, both on the paternal and maternal side, were prominent in Revolutionary and colonial days. She was graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1880. Later she studied at Dr. Sauveur’s School of Languages at Amherst college and at the N. E. Conservatory of Music in Boston. She went abroad in 1881. For three years she was the efficient and devoted associate principal of Northfield Seminary, the school founded by D. L. Moody. The “Hand-book of Northfield Seminary” says,—”To her example, love, and believing prayers, many a pupil owes the most valuable experience of her life.” Since her marriage to Gen. H. L. Porter she has continued her Bible classes at Lynn, Mass., and Concord, N. H. For ten years she taught in Concord probably the largest Bible class for women in the state. Mrs. Porter has been president of the Concord Seaman’s Friend society, the Union Missionary society, the Foreign Missionary and Charitable societies of the First Baptist church, and is connected with almost every local philanthropic work. She has served on important committees for the state Soldiers’ Home at Tilton and the N. H. Orphans’ Home. She was the first president of the N. H. Mt. Holyoke Alumnae Association, and is a vice president of the Students’ Aid society of Wellesley College. The beautiful home of General and Mrs. Porter at Concord is noted for its refined hospitality, and there is scarcely a religious, benevolent, or educational cause in the state that has not felt their generous support. Mrs. Porter is a most persuasive speaker, and an excellent presiding officer. She is also gifted with the pen, as various periodicals attest. She belongs to the Warwick Shakespeare club, N. H. Historical society, and Concord Woman’s club. As a mother, she has been deeply interested in the public schools, from which the two eldest of her four children, William and Carrie, have graduated and are now members of Harvard ’98 and Wellesley 99.