These four reels of microfilm combine records related to the Davenport family from 1. The State Historical Society of Iowa Special Collections and Museum. 2. Augustana College Special Collections. 3. Rock Island County Historical Society. 4. Black Hawk State Historical Site. All materials were returned to the respective institutions after being filmed.
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Davenport Family Collection, 1819-1923. Ms 26 Microfilm. Special Collections, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
Microfilm. 4 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Colonel George Davenport was born in England and enlisted in the U.S. Army in New York. He left the Army in 1815 to become an army supplier at Fort Armstrong in Rock Island, Illinois. In 1825 he became an agent for the American Fur Company and postmaster at Rock Island. In 1835 he and a group of investors bought land in Iowa for the new town of Davenport. In 1837 Davenport went to Washington, D.C. with Chief Black Hawk, Keokuk, Poweshiek, Wapello, and forty other Sauk and Fox Indians to negotiate land treaties. Davenport played a large role in the 1842 treaty that led to the final Indian land surrender in Iowa. Susan Lewis Goldsmith was Davenport's stepdaughter and the mother of his two sons, George L. and Bailey. George L. Davenport, served as Indian agent at the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa, and became a prominent businessman and father of Naomi Davenport. Naomi did not marry and lived in the Davenport family mansion in Rock Island.
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