Background
Sargent, Porter was born on June 6, 1872 in Brooklyn. Son of Francis Porter and Roselyn (Hitchcock) Sargent.
Sargent, Porter was born on June 6, 1872 in Brooklyn. Son of Francis Porter and Roselyn (Hitchcock) Sargent.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1896, and Master of Arts, 1897.
Assistant in botany, later in zoology, Harvard. Master of science, Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1896-1904. Engaged in research in comparative neurology, Harvard, 1897-1901, and independently with grants from Carnegie Institute, 1902-1904.
Director of science, Nautical Preparatory School, 1903-1904.
Founder, 1904, and for 10 years director, Sargent’s Travel School for Boys (5 times round the world). Organizer and director Sargent School Service.
Organizer, with WordPress Everet, of Boston, Harvard Liberal Club.
Editor public Sargent’s Handbooks. Handbook of New England, 3 edits. Private Schools, 22 edits.
Summer Camps, 12 edits. Handbook for Private School Teachers. Editor Elihu Vedder’s Poems, Edgar Waterman Anthony’s A History of Mosaics, etc.
Author: Spoils: Poems From a Crowded Life, 1935. Our Poesy Is as a Gum, 1935. The New Immoralities.
Clearing the Way for a New Ethics, 1935. Also numerous magazine articles, etc.
Club: Harvard (Boston).
Married at Rome, Italy, Margaret Upham, of Boston, March 9, 1907. Children: Upham (deceased), Porter.