Col William Davenport
BIRTH
12 Oct 1770
Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
19 Aug 1859 (aged 88)
BURIAL
Fort Defiance Cemetery
Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA
Davenport, William, philanthropist, b. in Culpepper county, Va, 12 Oct., 1770; d. in Walnut Fountain, Caldwell co., N.C., 19 Aug, 1859. About the close of the Revolutionary war he went with his father to what is now Mitchell county, N.C. He represented Burke county in the legislature in 1800, and was state senator in 1802. He was also justice of the peace, county surveyor, and a colonel of militia. Col. Davenport was the chief founder of Davenport female college, at Lenoir, N.C. He married the widow of Maj. Charles Gordon, one of the heroes of King's Mountain.
Source: Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887
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