Porter, John H.

PORTER, RAYBURN

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Date: 5/10/2011 at 17:34:09

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa (1880)
Page 659

PORTER, JOHN H.--Of the firm of Rayburn & Porter. Was born in Carroll county, Ohio, April 29th, 1841, where he lived until December, '54, when he came west with his parents and went to farming, in which vocation he continued until 1872, though in the meantime he enlisted in company C, of the Twenty-eighth Iowa, August, 1862, and served his country until the close of the war. He participated in every battle of his regiment. He was married here to Miss Mary J. Rayburn, January 17, 1869, a native of Ohio. Mr. Porter has two sons and one daughter: Gertrude, Raymond and Albert, living, and has lost two daughters: Mary F. and Allin. Also lost his wife, December 9, 1879.