PORTER, MCCANDLESS, JOHNSTON George PORTER, superintendent of the South Penn Oil company, Midland division, died Monday morning in his home, 151 South Negley avenue, Pittsburg. Mr. PORTER was one of the best know oil operators in the Eastern fields. He had been identified with the industry 43 years, and had operated in nearly all of the Pennsylvania fields. He was born in County Armagh, near Belfast, Ireland, in 1844, and came to America when he was 15 years old. He lived with his cousin in Beaver county until he went to Oil City in 1864, securing a position there as a clerk in a hardware store. He became a member of the firm the following year and continued in this business until 1874, when he became interested in oil operations and with Robert M. WAUGH, under the name of WAUGH & PORTER, operated extensively in the Butler, Bradford and Richburg oil fields. In 1886 Mr. PORTER became identified with the Standard Oil company, in the fuel department. In 1890 he was appointed superintendent of the South Penn Oil company at Oil City and in 1897 he was transferred to the Bradford district and in 1902 to the Pittsburg district. He was a member of the East Liberty Presbyterian church and Petrolia Lodge F. & A. M., of Oil City. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. William GATES of South Negley avenue, Pittsburg, with whom he lived since the death of his wife, six years ago, and Mrs. E. A. NISBET of Amber street, Pittsburg; one brother and two sisters in Ireland. Mrs. Margaret MCCANDLESS died March 26 at her home in Orion, Ill. The deceased was a sister of the late Henry BURNS, married John MCCANDLESS and went to her western home and lived there all her married life. She leaves two sons, George at the old home and Wallace of Brooklyn, and one daughter, Miss Laura, who was companion in her younger days and helper and caretaker when old age and disease came. She was much missed in the home she left and in the life of the one she went to. An only brother, A. R. BURNS of Iowa, survives her. *Imperial column John JOHNSTON, a highly respected citizen of this place, died very suddenly from heart trouble, and was buried in the Oakdale cemetery Monday afternoon. *Oakdale column