Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Davenport, Warren May 5, 1824 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

WARREN DAVENPORT, farmer, section 14, Barton Township, was born in Whitley 
Co., Ind., May 5, 1846.  His 

father, William Davenport, was a son of Jesse Davenport; the former was born 
Sept. 24, 1824, in Wayne Co. 

Ind.; was married July 31, 1842, to Jemima Stanley, of Richmond, Ind., in 
1845, he went to Columbia, 

Whitley County, where he embarked in a successful mercantile enterprise, and 
three years later came to 

Newaygo County, and engaged in the business of millwright; settled in Barton 
Township in 1856, where he 

has since resided.

Warren Davenport is the oldest of six children born to his parents.  He 
received a fair education in the 

common schools of Indiana, and was bred to the calling of farmer, which he has 
pursued almost exclusively 

in Barton Townhsip.  He owns a fine farm of 214 acres, and is cultivating 120 
acres, which he has cleared 

and placed under most creditable improvements.  He was married Sept. 12, 1863, 
to Eliza, daughter of 

William C. and Lucinda (Lord) Bliss.  Her father was born in New York and her 
mother in Pennsylvania, of 

which State she is a native, born in 1846.  Mr. and Mrs. Davenport have eight 
children:  Jessie L., 

Walter, William F., Frank F., Rosa J., George W., Addie E. and Fred C.

Mr. Davenport is a Republican in respect to national issues.  He has served 
his township as Justice of the 

Peace eight years.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo County.

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