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Born 1858
From Biographical review of Henry County, Iowa, containing biographical and genealogical sketches of many of the prominent citizens of to-day and also of the past .. (1906)
ASBURY B. PORTER.
Asbury B. Porter, the youngest son of Colonel Asbury B. Porter and one of the grandsons of General Samuel Brazelton, was born in Henry county in January, 1858, and has lived in Mount Pleasant all his life. He was educated in the public schools, but left school at sixteen years of age to join an engineering corps of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad Company under the management of his brother-inlaw. Captain Warren Beckwith. He spent his early life in the profession, having charge of a corps who surveyed the route from Ogden to Helena, Montana. Later becoming tired of such work he was appointed mail agent and served the government for eight years. IMore recently he has been employed by the New York Life Insurance Company.
In 1890 he was married to Miss Harriet Bennet and they have six living children: Ruth Emily, Paul Asbury, Martha Ann, Robert Frank and Richard, having lost by death two — Asbury and Theodore.
As printed in Biographical review of Henry County, Iowa, containing biographical and genealogical sketches of many of the prominent citizens of to-day and also of the past .. (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Captain Warren Beckwith Warren Beckwith (b. 1833)
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