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Title: Westport United Methodist Church
Description: Postcard photo: "Westport United Methodist Church at West 40th and Washington was the first Protestant church to be organized in the Kansas City and Independence area. The church's 150th anniversary is October 24-26, 1986. The church was formally organized in 1836 in the house of William Miles Chick by Reverend James Porter. By 1853 the Methodists decided to build their own church. Under the direction of Nathan Scarritt, the pastor, the lot at 40th and Washington was purchased for $500."
Date: 1986-10-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Union Cemetery
Description: Listing of people "born in the 18th Century" and buried in Union Cemetery including Richard Simpson (born in 1770), Mrs. Elizabeth Porter (born in 1750), Reverend James Porter (born in 1786), and Mrs. Jane Porter (born in 1786), et al.
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Union Cemetery
Description: Description of members of the local Porter family interred at Union Cemetery, including Elizabeth Porter (1750-1845), a native of Ireland and widow of Samuel Porter, her son Reverend James Porter (1786-1851), his wife Jane Porter (1786-1873), and James's son Jesse Porter and his wife Lucy Porter, respectively.
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: James Porter
Description: Biographical information about James Porter (1786-1851), organizer of the first Methodist church in Kansas City in the 1830s. Arriving in Jackson County in 1829 from Nashville with his mother Elizabeth Porter and coming to Kansas City about 1833-1834, building five log homes at about 26th Street and Porter Avenue or Tracy Avenue with slave cabins, including his own residence (pictured) demolished in 1913.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: A Retired Methodist Minister with Two Score Slaves Transformed into a Plantation 365 Acres North of of Thirty-First Street at Troost, Which He Found a Wilderness
Description: 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."
Date: 1926-02-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy
Description: Mention of James Porter as purchaser of a farm from Isaac McCoy on land between "about 33rd street, on the south, extending north almost to the Union Cemetery; and from Main on the west, to about Locust street on the east."
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Founders of Methodism in This Community
Description: Mention of Mrs. W. Ewing Hall as a granddaughter of Reverend James Porter, founder of the local Methodist Society in 1845, with a footnote about him arriving in Kansas City in 1832 with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, born in 1750.
Date: 1923-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Methodism in Early Kansas City
Description: Description of the home of James Porter built in 1832 at the later intersection of 27th and Tracy Streets. Services held at locations outside the Methodist Church until built in 1860.
Date: 1923-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

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