PETER B. PORTER
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NYS Historic
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People
- 1270 Niagara St., Buffalo, NY
- 42.918386, -78.899207
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Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
PETER B. PORTER
Inscription
PETER B. PORTERGENERAL, CONGRESSMAN AND
LATER SEC. OF WAR, LIVED
HERE UNTIL HIS HOME WAS
DESTROYED BY THE BRITISH AT
THE BURNING OF BUFFALO 1813
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2012
Peter Buell Porter (1773-1844) was a military general, US Congressman and later served as the nation’s Secretary of War. British troops destroyed his home during the Burning of Buffalo in 1813.
