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Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York
Vol. I, Biographical and Genealogical
The Genealogical Publishing Co., Buffalo; 1906-8

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        PORTER NORTON. This distinguished lawyer and citizen has all his
     life been a resident of Buffalo and for more than thirty years has
     practiced his profession in this city.
        Mr. Norton comes of an ancestry prominent in Colonial affairs and
     in the Revolutionary period. In the records of the New York State
     Society, Sons of the American Revolution, his descent is given as
     follows : "Son of CHARLES D. NORTON and JEANETTE PHELPS; grandson of
     JOSEPH E. NORTON and LUCRETIA HUNTINGTON; great-grandson of JOSEPH
     HUNTINGTON and ELIZABETH HALE; great-grandson (2d) of CAPT. JONATHAN
     HALE, great (3) grandson of JONATHAN HALE and SARAH TALCOTT,
     greatgrandson (4) of SAMUEL HALE and MARY WELLS, great-grandson (5) of
     SAMUEL HALE (1st), who came to Watertown, Mass., in 1852 and moved to
     Connecticut. The SAMUELS were both soldiers and honored civil officers
     of their day."

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