Draft:James R. Porter

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James Reynolds Porter (February 6, 1865 – December 25, 1960) was a dentist and businessman.{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVmLEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22j.r.+porter%22+dentist&pg=PT190 | title=Twentieth Century Negro Literature | author1=Various | date=16 September 2022 }}{{Cite book |last=Sanders |first=Robert B. |url=https://archive.org/details/contributionsofa0000sand/page/748/mode/2up?q=%22James+Reynolds+Porter%22 |title=Contributions of African American Scientists to the Field[s] of Science, Medicine, and Inventions |date=2010 |publisher=Nova Science Publishers |isbn=978-1-60741-319-6 |pages=749 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1960-12-27 |title=Porter |pages=21 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-porter/137624685/ |access-date=2023-12-29}}

Born in Savannah, Georgia, he attended West Broad Street School there and graduated from Atlanta University in 1886. He received a D.D.S. degree from Central Tennessee College.

He established a practice in Birmingham, Alabama and helped found Alabama Penny Savings Bank.{{Cite book |last=English |first=Bertis D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AoX1DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22James+R.+Porter%22+Georgia&pg=PA424 |title=Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt: A History of Perry County |date=2020 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-2069-0 |pages=424 |language=en}}

Porter married Henrietta H. Curtis, daughter of Alexander H. Curtis and founder of the Chautauqua Circle.{{Cite news |date=1948-07-16 |title=Porter, Mrs. Henrietta |pages=26 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-porter-mrs-he/137626442/ |access-date=2023-12-29}}