Ebenezer Porter

The son of Vermont politician and judge Thomas Porter, Ebenezer was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on May 5, 1772.

In 1814 Dartmouth College awarded Porter an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.

Porter published Young Preacher's Manual; Analysis of Vocal Inflections; Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery; Rhetorical Reader and Exercises; and Lectures on Homilectics and Preaching, and on Public Prayer, with Sermons and Addresses.

After his death, The Biblical Reader and Lectures on Eloquence and Style were also published.

Porter was also a contributor to the Quarterly Register, and a translator of many sacred German poems.