Background
Porter, Frank Chamberlin was born on January 5, 1859 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Professor William and Ellen Gertrude (Chapin) Porter.
Porter, Frank Chamberlin was born on January 5, 1859 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Professor William and Ellen Gertrude (Chapin) Porter.
Bachelor of Arts, Beloit College, 1880, Master of Arts, 1883, Doctor of Divinity, 1897. Chicago Theological Seminary, 1881-1882. Hartford Theological Seminary, 1884-1885.
Bachelor of Divinity, Yale, 1886, Doctor of Philosophy, 1889, Doctor of Divinity, 1931.
He went to Boston and entered the Conservatory in 1879, graduating in 1884. During the five years there he studied the piano, the organ, theory, counterpoint, vocal music and the art of conducting. His teachers were Messrs.
Turner, Dunham, Emery, Parker, Chadwick, Tamburello and Zerrahn.
Immediately after graduating he was engaged as a piano teacher by the conservatory. He went to Germany to study in Leipzig in 1893.
Porter"s published works include a prelude and fugue in East minor, mazourkas, nocturnes, a set of easy pieces for teaching, songs for soprano and tenor, a contralto solo with violin obligato, a Festival March for two pianos, a Serenade for violin and piano, an overture for four hands,an operetta and other compositions. Porter died in Belmont, Massachusetts in 1941.
Member Society Biblical Literature and Exegesis.
Married Delia West. Lyman, June 10, 1891. Children: Lyman Edwards, William Quincy.