This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PORTER, ROOK, GRUBAUGH Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cl.2ADI/819 Message Board Post: D. B. Porter, son of Samuel and Lydia Porter, was born in Fulton County, Illinois, October 2, 1854. When he was a babe he was taken by his parents to Wayne County, Iowa, they locating on the farm which is still the home of our subject. Here he was reared to the life of a farmer, receiving a limited education in the common schools of the county. June 28, 1874, he was united in marriage to Martha E. Rook, she being a daughter of Adam and Barbara(Grubaugh)Rook, of Mercer County, Missouri. This union has been blessed with two children, a daughter, Sarah Etta, and Gilbert Glenn. Mr. Porter, though yet a young man, has gained a good position in the county, both socially and financially, and is classed among the enterprising farmers of Clinton Township, where he has so long resided. His mother finds a home with him, where she is surrounded with all the necessary comforts of life. Mr. Porter is quite extensively engaged in dealing in stock, and has some fine specimens of horses! and mules on his farm, his mules and jacks being classed among the best in the county. He is pleasantly located on section 21, Clinton Township, having a good story and a half residence built in 1883, and his farm under thorough cultivation. Bigraphical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties P-309 Interstate Publishing Co Chicago 1886