Selma Mansion

Located on the western edge of the town, Selma was built by General Andrew Porter in 1794 around an existing structure purchased from Alexander McCammon in 1786.

[1] Andrew Porter's sons were raised at Selma Mansion and went on to distinguished careers in law, politics, and government.

[2] His third son, George Bryan Porter, was appointed governor of Michigan Territory by President Andrew Jackson.

[3] Andrew's youngest son, James Madison Porter, was Secretary of War under President John Tyler and a founder of Lafayette College in Easton.

[4] Porter's grandson, Civil War brevet brigadier general Horace Porter, was the aide-de-camp and personal secretary to Ulysses S. Grant, and was ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905,[5] while his granddaughter Eliza Parker married Robert Todd and gave birth to a daughter, Mary, the wife of eventual U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.