G. D. PORTER

PORTER, RODMAN

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 15:44:55

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

G. D. PORTER, lawyer; born in Perry Co., Penn., in 1846; moved to Cedar Co., Iowa, in 1851; thence to Richmond, Mo. in 1866, and located in this county in 1870. Married Miss Hannah Rodman in 1871; she was born in Boone Co., Ind., in 1854; their children are Claud R., Sadie L., Northa Iowa, George McCoy. National in politics. Owns improved property in Moulton, in this county, valued at $1,600; 200 acres of coal land, valued at $10 per acre, and a farm of 160 acres valued at $25 per acre.