Marjorie Lansing Porter, Essex County Republican Editor Helen Margarette "Marjorie" Lansing Porter (1891-1973), Essex County Historian, Clinton County Historian, City of Plattsburgh Historian, Essex County Republican Editor and writer, co-founder Adirondack History Center in Elizabethtown, Essex County, NY. She is the great-granddaughter of Wendell Lansing, Essex County Republican Founder & Publisher, Abolitionist, Underground Railroad Conductor in network with Samuel and Catherine Keese and Stephen Keese Smith of Peru. Wendell Lansing was a member of the First Baptist Church of Keeseville.