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He was born on January 22, 1822 in the town of Alexandria, Pennsylvania, United States, the eldest son of John and Maria (Bucher) Porter. His father emigrated from Ireland and his mother was the grand-daughter of John C. Bucher, a native of Neunkirch, Switzerland. His early life was spent in the small town of his birth.
He was fond of study and reading but was not a bookworm. At the age of twelve he was sent to Harrisburg Academy, and two years later he entered Lafayette College, where he graduated in 1840. The next three years he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 1843. The following year he spent at his father's home in Alexandria, during which time he did much reading and began the study of botany, which he continued throughout his life.
Having previously served as stated supply of a church at Monticello, Georgia, he was ordained by the German Reformed Classis at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1848, and became pastor of the Second German Church at Reading, Pennsylvania.
In 1849 he was called to teach chemistry, zoology, and botany at Marshall College, which was later combined with Franklin College as Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He continued in this position until 1866, when he was called to the chair of botany, zoology, and geology at Lafayette College, which position he occupied until 1897, when he became emeritus professor and curator of the museum. Between 1877 and 1884 he was also pastor of a church in the city of Easton, Pennsylvania.
At the time of his death he was the president of the Pennsylvania-German Society. In 1840 he began a collection of plants from the neighborhood of his birthplace and continued collecting till his death. In company with Joseph LeConte he explored northern Georgia in 1846. In 1869-74 he did pioneer botanical work in the Rocky Mountains, giving considerable aid to John M. Coulter, botanist of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.
With Joseph Leidy he also collected plants in Wyoming and Colorado. He contributed a summary of the flora of Pennsylvania to the New Topographical Atlas of the State of Pennsylvania (1872), edited by H. F. Walling and O. W. Gray, and the section entitled "Botanical Description" to Gray's Atlas of the United States (1873).
In addition to his botanical writings he also made a number of translations and contributed verses and essays to the reviews of his time. Among his translations were The Life and Labors of St. Augustine (1854), from the German of Philip Schaff and Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea (1854).
He died in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Conrad Porter did pioneer botanical work with John M. Coulter in the Rocky Mountains and published the results in Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado. He discovered a number of new species of plants and his herbarium became widely known to botanists because of the completeness of the Pennsylvania species which it contained. His most noteworthy papers are The Flora of Pennsylvania and his Catalogue of the Bryophyta and Pteridophyta Found in Pennsylvania. In the field of literature his most significant contribution was "Kalewala and Hiawatha".
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He was a member of a number of societies, including the Torrey Botanical Club of New York, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society.
Porter had an unusual fund of information and a genial wit; he was often testy and impatient, but never dull.
In 1850 he married Susan Kunkel of Harrisburg.
