EDWARD PORTER
Edward Porter came to Cass county in September, 1855, and settled in Round Grove, now a part of Edna township, and located on the farm owned by William S. Townsend, who was one of the first settlers in Cass county. Edward lived in a small log cabin until 1870, when he built a nice frame house, in which he now resides. Mr. Porter was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, on the Ist of February, 1813. When about ten years of age, he moved with his father to Richland county, Ohio, and there remained until about twenty years of age. In the fall of 1838, he moved to Macon county, Illinois, where his father died, leaving Edward to support the family. Edward remained in that county until 1885, when he removed to Stark county, Illinois, and there remained a short time, when he came to Iowa, and has since made this his home. Mr. Porter was married in Stark county, Illinois, on the 25th of October, 1838, to Clarissa Powell, a native of New York State. They have had thirteen children, eight of whom are now living--Elizabeth, Jane, Amelia, Isaiah, Alice, John, Rosa and William. Daniel W., the eldest son, enlisted in 1862, in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, and died in the service. Mr. Porter's mother died in 1883, in Stark county, Illinois, at the age of ninety-six years.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 752.
