Illustrated map and biographical article about Reverend James Porter (1786-1851), a pioneer Methodist minister arriving in Jackson County from Tennessee with his mother in 1829 before settling in Kansas City in 1833-1834 with "his wife, Mrs. Jane Thomas Porter [or Jane Porter], and a party large enough to form a little colony in the wilderness of Western Missouri of that day." Buyer of "365 acres for his plantation" of land between 31st and 23rd Streets, the Paseo and Locust Streets "from William Baxter and David Burge," building his home at the northeast corner of 28th and Tracy Avenues with nearby barn and slave cabins and "burial ground of the Porter family" on the "present site of the Troost Avenue Methodist church, 2534 Troost avenue."
