High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Addison Porter (March 15, 1822 - August 25, 1866) was an American Professor of Chemistry. He was born in Catskill, New York and died in New Haven, Connecticut. He, along with William Kingsley, publisher of The New Englander, and eleven others, founded the senior or secret society Scroll and Key and incorporated the Kingsley Trust Association at Yale University in 1841.