Sumter-Dougherty County GaArchives Biographies.....Davenport, James A. unknown - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   JAMES A. DAVENPORT. A man of pronounced ability, intelligence and much
enterprise, James A. Davenport is numbered among the successful business men of
Americus, and is a worthy representative of its native-born citizens, his birth
having occurred in this city. He is a son of the late Col. Walter and Mary
(Frederick) Davenport, and a brother of Daniel F. Davenport, in whose sketch,
which appears elsewhere in this volume, further parental and ancestral history
may be found.

   Obtaining his preliminary education in the public schools of Americus, James
A. Davenport was subsequently graduated from Bryant & Stratton's Business
College, in Baltimore, 1874. Returning home he was afterwards for a time engaged
in the drug trade with his father and brother, but for several years has carried
on an extensive and highly remunerative business as an insurance agent,
representing many large and well-known companies.

   Mr. Davenport married October 23, 1895, Miss Chloe Belle White, who was born
in Albany, Dougherty county, Georgia. Her father, John J. White, a Virginian by
birth and breeding, entered the Confederate service while a boy in his teens,
and served as a courier on the staff of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Subsequently coming
to Sumter county, Georgia, he located at Albany, and purchasing a nearby
plantation resided there a number of years. Going then to Chicago and St. Louis,
he was there engaged in the brokerage business until his death. His wife, whose
maiden name was Dora Hutchinson, was a native of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs.
Davenport are the parents of five children, namely: Catherine; James; Gertrude;
Chloe Belle; and Virginia.

   Public-spirited and actively interested in local affairs, Mr. Davenport has
rendered excellent service as an alderman, and as a director of the Carnegie
public library. Fraternally he is a member of Council Lodge, No. 95, Free and
Accepted Masons; of Wells Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and of DeMolay Commandery,
Knights Templar.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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