Brief Life History of Oscar Columbus
When Oscar Columbus Davenport was born on 11 November 1904, in Talladega, Alabama, United States, his father, Richard Perry Davenport, was 43 and his mother, Nancy Jane Blankenship, was 42. He married Neoma Leona “Sally” Martin on 17 August 1924, in Talladega, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Fayetteville, Talladega, Alabama, United States for about 10 years and Election Precinct 10 Fayetteville, Talladega, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 26 June 1979, in Sylacauga, Talladega, Alabama, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Sylacauga, Talladega, Alabama, United States.
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- Osker Devenport, "United States Census, 1930"
- *car Davenport, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Oscar C. Davenport, "BillionGraves Index"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1906 · Licencing Butchers
A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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