Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
The following Biographical sketch was copied from the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers. 1883.
page 671, Monroe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.
"ALBERT DAVENPORT was born near Sandusky, Ohio, the third in a family of three sons and two daughters born to JOHN and PAULINA (PRATT) DAVENPORT, natives respectively of Vermont and Sandusky County, Ohio. The mother died in Sandusky County. The father married again, and came to what is now Pulaski County August 19, 1837, when ALBERT was in his sixth year, locating on part of what now constitutes his farm. Our subject attended the school taught by Miss NANCY CHAPMAN, the first teacher in the county. He was married in December, 1860, to Miss E. AMANDA BINGAMAN, a native of Carroll County, Indiana, of which her parents were pioneers. Mr. DAVENPORT and wife began housekeeping on eighty acres he had purchased of his father, to which he has added until he now owns 479 acres of choice land. Mr. DAVENPORT is a Democrat, and has great experience in the affairs of this township, being one of its earliest occupants."
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:No followups yet |
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/oh/erie/messages/199.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|