Brooklyn Eagle December 29 1902 Warren P. Bell Warren P. Bell died suddenly at his home, 479 Prospect Avenue, Saturday morning, after a short illness. Mr. Bell was born in Darien, Conn., September 1, 1846. He has been a resident of this city much of the time for forty years. for many years he was in the hardware business. His health became impaired, he went to Charleston, W. Va., where he remained some time. Regaining his health he returned to New York. Much of the time since he has been engaged as researcher, part of the time in the Hall of Records, Manhattan, and later with the New York Guarantee and title Company. Mr. Bell has always been interested in Christian work and was at one time president of the Lafayette Avenue Temperance Society. connected with the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church. During a few years residence in Passaic, N.J. he was a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of that place. For some years he has been a member of the board of managers of the Sunday Observance Association of Kings County, and has made it his special duty to watch the daily papers for any matter concerning Sabbath that might need the attention of the Association. His genial and loving disposition endeared him to all of his relatives and friends. Who will greatly mourn his loss. His wife, one daughter, his mother and one sister survive him. The funeral service will be held at his late home tonight at 8 O'clock. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ December 18, 1902 Alfred Haynes Porter Alfred Haynes Porter, president of the Brooklyn City Mission and Prominent in philanthropy in this borough, died at his home 457 Clinton Avenue, yesterday. Mr. porter was born in Hartford, Conn., Seventy-four years ago, his parents being Haynes Lord Porter and Lucinda Bunce, descended from the oldest families of Connecticut. In early manhood he with his wife, Nee Camelia Atwood, moved to the heights section of Brooklyn and united with the Church of the Pilgrims, and was a member when the Rev. Dr. Storrs was called to pastorate. He subsequently moved to 81 Hanson Place, where he had lived for twenty-three years, when he moved to the house where he died. He was a deacon in the Church of the Pilgrims, but, United with Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church when he moved to the Twentieth Ward, and was a strong personal friend to Rev. Drs. Cuyler and Gregg. He organized the firm Hoag, Porter & Co., wholesale coffee merchants, of Wall Street, Manhattan. He retired from the firm some years ago, devoting his leisure to organize charities. He with Alfred T. White, succeeded some years ago in driving the "outdoor relief" system from the Department of Charities, thus driving out a fraudulent department, used for the aid of political heelers. He took up work of the Brooklyn City Mission and has succeeded in making it self-supporting, by the means of its wood yards and lodging houses, except as to the pay of the city missionaries. This he considered the crowing work of his life. His son Alfred Haynes Porter, Jr., is president of the Royal Baking Powder Company, and his daughters are Mrs. B. G. Templeton, Mrs. Raymond Hoogland and the Misses Mary A. and Grace, all of Brooklyn. six Grandchildren also survive him. Funeral services will be held at his home tomorrow afternoon at 4 O'clock. The Rev. T. S. Childs of Washington, D. C. a brother in law of the deceased. officiating. The burial will be in Hartford, Conn. ____________________________________________________________________________ December 18, 1902 Edwin W. Belcher Edwin W. Belcher, who died of heart trouble at Omonoque, Conn, where he had lived for the past two years, since his illness was a former Brooklyn man, having lived at 174 Putnam Avenue for thirty years. He had long been in importing business in New York, bur retired about seven years ago. The funeral service were held in Omonoque, Conn, today.