Hendricks County residents who graduated from Purdue University, West Lafayette (1955)

source: Coatesville Herald (Coatesville, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, June 16, 1955 - page 3, columns 6-7:

DANVILLE:
--James Gordon Graham - Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
--Charles S. Porter - Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

PLAINFIELD:
--Louis Edward Gaston - Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Adoption of Stephen Michael EAGAN and Patricia Ann EAGAN (1965)

source: The Republican (Danville, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, September 9, 1965 - page 7, column 4:

According to a legal notice, in September 1965 there was a petition filed by Donald Ray Porter in the Hendricks County Superior Court (case # S 65-22) to adopt Stephen Michael Eagan and Patricia Ann Eagan, minor children. Their biological father, Robert Donald Eagan, was listed as whereabouts unknown. The case was scheduled to be heard in court on October 18, 1965.

Doctor Sanders PORTER Adopted (1896)

As mentioned in Hendricks County Civil Order Book Volume 39 (May 1895 - April 1896), in February 1896, Reason R. Reader petitioned the circuit court to adopt Doctor Sanders Porter as his heir-at-law, noting that Porter's mother was dead and the whereabouts of his father were unknown. The court granted his petition, noting that Porter's name would not be changed.

NOTE: The 1900 Hendricks County census (enumeration of the town of Danville) shows Reason R. Reader born April 1838 and among those listed in his household is "grandson" Doc Porter born January 1890.