Porcher was born January 16, 1809, at Cedar Spring plantation, near Charleston, S. C. His earlier years were passed in Pineville, and he has left in his history of Craven County a sketch of the life and manners of this place, typical of life in lower Carolina at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Three years after graduation he was elected a member of the South Carolina State Legislature, and served thus for several terms.
Politics were, however, distasteful to him after the first draught, neither did a planter's life satisfy him ; so he became in 1849 a member of the Faculty of the College of Charleston as Professor of Belles Lettres and History.
He continued in active service until 1881, after which he lectured to the advanced classes until prevented by feeble health in 1886.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1889 Yale Obituary Record.