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Porter - Glasscock- Sayer Mill

Porter's Mill - 1859

Located on Middle River in Washington Twp (now Lincoln Twp), Twp 76N, Range 24W, in the SW quarter of the SE quarter of section 7.
[Zoom in on this 1859 map of Washington Township (provided by the Library of Congress) to see surrounding areas.]

Cutler Porter, born 1825 in Ohio, married Susan Rice there on March 25, 1850, and immediately moved to Warren County, Iowa, where he purchased 160 acres of land in section 33 of Washington Township on Sep 5, 1850. The next year, May 15, 1851, Cutler purchased nearly another 159 acres, this time in section 7, where Porter Mill was located in the 1859 map shown above. There is no occupation listed for him in the 1860 federal census, so whether he worked at the mill or just owned it is not know. By 1862 Cutler moved his family to Colorado Territory and stayed there, where he died at age 66, on Sep 22, 1891.  His wife, Susan, died shortly thereafter (born in 1831 and died Sep 30, 1891).  Both are buried in Fairview Memorial Park, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, Colorado.

Sources: Compiled from the 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 census for the family of Culter Porter, marriage record for Culter Porter and Susan Rice, original land records for Culter Porter in Warren County, Iowa, Find A Grave listing for Culter and Susan Porter, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter Who Settled in Woymouth, Mass, 1635 and Allied Families, by Joseph W. Porter, 1878, p.299.

When Mills Played an Important Part in Warren County, by Edith L. Conn (date unknown, booklet at the Warren County Historical Society Library)
Jacob Glascock was born in Ohio in 1836. He was principally raised there. He later went to Whiteside County, Illinois and married Miss Anna M. Guise, a native of Germany. They were married in 1859 andhad a family of nine children. Jacob Glascock came with his family from Whiteside County to Warren County, Iowa in the fall of 1866. He located on a farm seven and one-half miles north-west of Indianola and here built, what was traditionally known in Warren County as Glascock's Mill. It was located on Middle River. The mill was torn down and later the river bed became part of the Bellman farm. Mrs. Donald Bellman was a granddaughter of Jacob Glascock.