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Davenport (surname)
Davenport is a surname and may refer to: A * Abraham Davenport (1715–1789), American politician * A'keria C. Davenport (born 1988), American drag queen * Alan Garnett Davenport (1932–2009), Canadian wind engineer * Alice Davenport (1864–1936), American film actress * Arthur Davenport (other) * Ashley Davenport (1794–1874), New York state senator B * Bernard Davenport (1939–2018), Irish ambassador * Bill Davenport (1906–2001), American footballer C * Calum Davenport (born 1983), English footballer * Charles Davenport (1866–1944), American biologist and eugenicist * Christopher Davenport (1598–1680), English Catholic theologian * Claire Davenport (1933–2002), English actress * Clay Davenport, American baseball statistician * Clyde Davenport (1921–2020), American folk musician D * Derrick Davenport (born 1978), American male model * Dorothy Davenport (1895–1977), American actress, screenwriter and film director * Doris Davenport (1917–1980), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Davenport
Abraham Davenport (1715–1789) was a Connecticut councillor and judge from Stamford. He was celebrated in a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier for his stoical reaction to New England's Dark Day (1780). Personal life The grandson of New Haven Colony founder John Davenport, Abraham Davenport was born in the Connecticut Colony town of Stamford in 1715 to John and Elizabeth (). Davenport's home in Stamford was on Main Street, near the corner of Summer Street. Davenport graduated from Yale College with his Bachelor of Arts in 1732. He married Elizabeth Huntington on 16 November 1750 in Windham, Connecticut, and she died on 17 December 1773; Davenport remarried to Martha Fitch on 8 August 1776 in Stamford. In the aftermath of the American Revolutionary War, Davenport took ill and wounded US soldiers into home to care for their recovery. Abraham Davenport died in Danbury, Connecticut on 20 November 1789 at age 74; he was buried in Northfield, Connecticut, bequeathing that lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
