Brief Life History of John Levi
When John Levi Davenport was born on 9 January 1850, in Fremont, Mahaska, Iowa, United States, his father, John Squire Davenport, was 23 and his mother, Madorah Pack, was 18. He married Henrietta Lydia Troth on 6 February 1868, in Mills, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 7 October 1912, in Caddo, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Ida Cemetery, Munden, Republic, Kansas, United States.
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Sources (18)
- J L Davenport, "United States Census, 1880"
- John Davenport in entry for Avril L Stark and Madorah Ellen Palmer, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- John S Davenport, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
Spouse and Children
1850–1912 Male
1848–1894 Female
Children (7)
1868–1939 Female
1870–1945 Female
1874–1957 Male
1878–1954 Female
1881–1913 Male
+2 More Children
Parents and Siblings
1826–1902 Male
1831–1902 Female
Siblings (8)
1850–1912 Male
1852–1935 Male
1853–1871 Male
1855–1926 Female
1857–1940 Female
+3 More Children
World Events (8)
1851
Age 1
1854
Age 4
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
Age 17
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Davenport, from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu ‘to drop, to trickle’) + Old English port ‘market town’.
Irish: in Tipperary, this is an English surname adopted by bearers of Munster Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’, a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + artach ‘nobleman’.
History: John Davenport (died 1670) arrived in Boston, MA, in 1637. He came of an English Cheshire family associated with Capesthorne Hall, near Macclesfield.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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John Levi Davenport
John Levi's father, John Squire Davenport, hauled freight between Missouri and the west coast for thirty years. His children were born on these trips west and back and his children basically grew up h …
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