Porter is a town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States. It is known as the Peach Capital of Oklahoma. The population was 574 at the 2000 census.
Richard A. Twine, ca. 1925. Twine, born in St. Augustine on May 11, 1896, had a brief but notable career as a professional photographer in Lincolnville. Founded by freed slaves after the Civil War, Lincolnvilleâs homes and businesses formed the center of St. Augustineâs black community in the early 20th century.
At the time that he filed his patent applications he had to sign them with an âxâ because he was unable to write his name. Blair is the only person in the United States Patent Office records to be identified as a âcolored man.â No other inventor is identified by his or her race. Henry Blair died in 1860.