Sumter-Dougherty County GaArchives Biographies.....Davenport, James A. unknown - living in 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 22, 2004, 6:53 pm Author: William Harden p. 924 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. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/sumter/bios/gbs416davenpor.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb