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Author: William Harden
p. 1052-1054

   DANIEL FREDERICK DAVENPORT. Prominent among the successful business men of
Sumter county is Daniel Frederick Davenport, for many years one of the leading
druggists of Americus, where he is at the present time, in 1913, engaged in the
insurance and real estate business. He was born in Americus, a son of Colonel
Walter Davenport, a pioneer settler of this part of Georgia, and comes of
Revolutionary stock, and of substantial Virginian ancestry. His grandfather,
Hon. Thomas Davenport, and his great-grandfather Davenport were both life-long
residents of Virginia. His great-grandfather, a soldier in the Revolutionary
army, took part in several engagements of the war, and on one occasion, when
pursued by the British made his escape by running into a swamp, and burying
himself, all but his head, in the mud. For services rendered during the struggle
for independence he received from the United States government a grant of land,
and though he secured a tract of land in Georgia, he never assumed its possession.

   Hon. Thomas Davenport, whose birth occurred in Halifax county, Virginia,
became one of the largest landholders and tobacco raisers of that county, owning
a large plantation, which he operated with slave labor. A man of strong
personality, sound judgment and great influence, he was prominent in public
life, and was five times honored with an election to Congress, in which he
served acceptably for ten years. He married and reared three children, two sons,
George and Walter, and a daughter.

   Walter Davenport was born in 1817, at Halifax Court House, Virginia, and in
his native state received a liberal education. Beginning his active career as an
educator, he taught school for a few years, both in Virginia and in Tennessee.
Coming to Georgia in 1842, he located in Sumter county, which was then in a
state of comparative wildness, deer, wolves, bears, and other wild beasts of the
forest being plentiful, often terrorizing the few inhabitants of that locality.
There were at that time no railways, and all goods were transported by teams
from either Macon or Savannah, the round trip to and from those places consuming
several days, and being especially hard when the roads were in a bad condition.
Settling in Americus, then a mere hamlet, he was first engaged in the dry goods
trade, and later in the hardware business. At the outbreak of the war between
the states, he recruited a regiment, of which he was commissioned colonel, but
having been appointed tithing agent he did not go to the front. Soon after the
close of the conflict, Colonel Davenport established an insurance business, now
conducted by two of his sons, and continued a resident of Americus until his
death, in 1910, at the venerable age of ninety-three years.

   Colonel Davenport married Mary Frederick, a native of Orangeburg, South
Carolina. Her father, Daniel Frederick, was born, reared, and married in South
Carolina. Subsequently coming with his family to Georgia, he purchased a
plantation in Houston county, and operated it successfully, with the help of
slaves for a few years. Selling that property, he bought land in Macon county,
and there lived until his death, when upward of eighty years of age. His wife,
whose maiden name was Caroline Rumph, died at the age of four score years. They
reared a family of six children, as follows: Elvira; Ann; Olivia; Mary, who
married Colonel Davenport; Clara; and James D., who served as a major in the
Confederate service. Colonel Davenport's wife died several years before he did,
passing away in May, 1892. They were the parents of nine children, as follows:
Florence, wife of Benjamin P. Hollis; Virginia, wife of A. W. Smith; Fanny, wife
of Dupont Guerry; James A., of whom a brief personal sketch may be found on
another page of this work; Addie, who married D. J. Baldwin; Anna, a twin sister
of Addie, married Thomas Dickson; Daniel Frederick, the subject of this brief
sketch; Thomas Edwin; and Leila, wife of Lawrence Stapleton.

   After leaving the public schools of Americus, Daniel F. Davenport further
advanced his education by an attendance in an academy, and at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College in Auburn, Alabama. On returning home, he became
associated with his father and brother in the drug business, with which he was
connected for twenty-eight consecutive years, having built up a large and
lucrative patronage in that line. In 1910 Mr. Davenport embarked in the real
estate, and the life and accident insurance business, in company with his
brother, James A. Davenport, and in his undertakings is meeting with good success.

   On November 21, 1890, Mr. Davenport was united in marriage with Miss Leila
Crisp, who was born in Ellaville, Georgia, a daughter of Honorable Charles F.
and Clara (Burden) Crisp, of whom a brief account may be found elsewhere in this
volume. Mr. and Mrs. Davenport have two children, namely: Clara Belle, and Mary
Ella. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davenport are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Davenport is a member of the college fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon; and also
belongs to the Woodmen of the World; and to the Patriotic Order Sons of America.


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



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Note added Nov 4, 2004 by Sarah Howell Studstill SHStu@aol.com
"Just a note to say in the book, "History of Sumter County, Georgia" by Jack F. Cox:  
I have a correction to a name given in the sketch by William Harden's book - 
see correction below the following paragraph:
On November 21, 1890, Mr. Davenport was united in marriage with Miss Leila
Crisp, who was born in Ellaville, Georgia, a daughter of Honorable Charles F.
and Clara (Burden) Crisp, of whom a brief account may be found elsewhere in this
volume.[Harden's book] 
pg 269 [shs - from sketch done by Janet Merritt, who was Janet Burton Scarborough Merritt] 
the info concerning the Leila Burton Crisp b 1868, d 1955 has her middle name as BURTON, 
not Burden.
[shs -the above Mrs. Merritt was elected to the GA Legislature 4 terms;  
also served as GA State Regent & National Vice President General of the DAR.....]"