PORTS, JOHN T.

PORTS, WHEELER

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Date: 4/15/2013 at 15:48:10

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 814

PORTS, JOHN T.--Farmer, section 34, P.O. Victor. Was born March 19,1838, in Baltimore county, Maryland, and after completing his education he engaged in farming till the spring of 1866, when he came to Iowa and settled on T. Wheeler's farm, which he worked till the spring of 1869, then bought and settled where he now lives and owns eighty acres of improved land with a good house on the same. He is an active member of the M.E. Church, and is now one of the stewards of that denomination. Mr. Ports was married, January 18, 1865, in Baltimore county, Maryland, to Miss Serena H. Wheeler, who was born there May 18, 1847. They have four children: Edgar G. (born February 3, 1866), Willie F. (born October 8, 1872), Howard T. (born August 11, 1875) and Stanley B. (born August 24, 1879). Richard D., father of Mrs. Ports, died January 12, 1863, in Maryland, aged sixty-five. Dorotha W., her mother, now lives in Baltimore county, Maryland, aged eighty years.