he resigned the position on May 1, 1900. He died of a malignant intestinal disease in December 1900 at age 44. He was the author of: The Corporation of Yale College, 1885 Origin and Administration of the City of Washington, 1885 Sketches of Yale Life, 1886 Personal life John Addison Porter was the elder son of John Addison Porter, a professor of chemistry at Yale University, and his wife, née Josephine Earl Sheffield, daughter of Joseph Earl Sheffield, founder of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School. In 1882 he married Amy Ellen Betts, granddaughter of Judge Samuel Betts of New York. In 1901 she founded the John Addison Porter Prize in American History at Yale University in memory of her husband. John Addison Porter Prize in American History The John Addison Porter Prize in American History for undergraduate history majors was established in 1901 by Mrs. Amy Betts Porter in memory of her husband. There are two other Yale endowments that commemorate John Addison Porter. The first, the John Addison Porter Memorial Fellowship was established in 1901 by Mrs. Josephine S. Porter in memory of her husband and her son, both named John Addison Porter, and given for distinguished excellence and promise in the Department of English. The other is the John Addison Porter University Prize, established by the Kingsley Trust Association in 1901 in continuance of a prize offered by that society annually since 1872, open to all in the university, given in honor of the father, a founder of that society. Winners of the undergraduate John Addison Porter Prize for outstanding senior essays or the John Addison Porter Prize for outstanding graduate dissertations have included: 1902: C. S. Thompson, for The Rise and Fall of the Congressional Caucus as a Machine for Nominating Candidates for the Presidency 1910: William S. Culbertson, for Alexander Hamilton: An Essay 1918: Lawrence H. Gipson, for Jared Ingersoll: A Study of American Loyalism in Relation to British Colonial Government 1921: George Stewart, Jr., for A History of Religious Education in Connecticut to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century 1923: Dumas Malone, for The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839 1928: George Herbert Ryden, for The Foreign Policy of the United States in Relation to Samoa 1929: Stanley McCrory Pargellis, for Lord Loudoun in North America 1934: Charles Roy Keller, for The Second Great Awakening in Connecticut 1937: Richard Irving Galland 1940: Liston Pope, for Millhands