H. H. Davenport

biography

DAVENPORT, H.H., farmer, P. O. Dicksonburg, was born in Tompkins County, N. Y., March 18, 1821, son of Solomon and Nancy (Van Order) Davenport and brother of J. A. Davenport, whose sketch appears below. Our subject, who is fourth in the family, received a partial academic education, and taught school about five terms in his younger days; afterward engaged in boat building and repairing, along the line of the Erie Extension Canal, which business he followed for about twenty years; also worked at the carpenter's and joiner's trade. He was married in 1847, to Betsey McDowell,a native of Summerhill Township, this county, born in 1828, and daughter of George McDowell, whose father, John, was a brother of the father of Samuel S. McDowell. Three children were the result of this union: George F., an attorney at law in Meadville and ex-District Attorney; James L. , an extensive farmer in Summit Township, and Miss Lida A. Our subject and wife are members of the R. T. and T. He is owner of 150 acres of well-improved land, part of which is his father's old homestead. In politics he is Republican.