Notes for: William Porter Gaston

Never married, William Porter Gaston was highly self-educated in math, English and history, and he carried a dictionary with him that he studied as he rode along on his horse. A highly religious man, he studied the Bible during much of his free time. He was missing his two front upper teeth, and the story goes that he lost them when someone dared him to sneak up to a large boar hog and bite its tail. He took the dare, and as the hog jumped, Porter lost his teeth.