George French Porter (1881-1927)

He graduated from Yale and went into banking. He was a patient of Carl Jung and William Alanson White, and it was on his invitation that Jung traveled to America in 1924. In 1912 he was Western Treasurer of the Progressive National Committee. He was a member of the Knickerbocker and University Clubs of New York and the Metropolitan at Washington. He was a director of the Judson Mining Company and the Nevada Land Company, and was also identified with banking and other interests in Chicago. He was a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Chicago Art Institute and the University Clubs of New York and Chicago. He killed himself on the same day that the Federal Reserve was instituted by vote. He left an estate valued at $3-million.