Walter C. Porter

Location: Section 24

Listed among Walter C. Porter's effects were a gold ring on the right hand, a gold ring with diamond on the left, a silver match box, glasses, keys and a diamond stickpin. Homesick from his business trip abroad, Walter Porter boarded the Titanic on April 10,1912, as a first class passenger returning home to Worcester where he was born and educated. He was a partner with Walter E. Bigelow in the Samuel Porter Last Manufacturing Company on Union Street, a shoe firm established by his father. Although the bodies of his two traveling companions were never recovered, Porter's was returned to Worcester by train from Halifax for burial next to his parents and first wife, Louise. The diamond in Porter's stickpin was incorporated into an engagement ring worn by his great grandson's wife.