James A. Porter (novelist) (c. 1836-Jan. 13, 1897) was born in
Bellefontaine,
Logan County,
Ohio. He served as a
bugler and
bandmaster
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in the
U.S. Civil War. Later, he was a music teacher in
Galion,
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, and
Greenville. After his retirement from teaching, he wrote a novel called
''A Prince of Anahuac; A Histori-Traditional Story'', which was published by The Crawford Company, Galion, Ohio, in 1894.
Reference: ''Ohio authors and their books : biographical data and selective bibliographies for Ohio authors, native and resident, 1796-1950''
by William Coyle; Ernest Wessen; Adlai E Stevenson; James Thurber
Cleveland, World Pub. Co., 1962, p. 505.
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1830s births
1897 deaths
19th-century American novelists
American male novelists
People from Bellefontaine, Ohio
Novelists from Ohio
19th-century American male writers