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Jan 01, 1783 Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom Died on 04 Jul 1845 (aged 62)
Illinois pioneer, landowner and businessman
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About George Davenport
- Colonel George Davenport, born George William King (1783 – July 4, 1845), was a 19th-century English-American sailor, frontiersman, fur trader, merchant, postmaster, US Army soldier, Indian agent, and city planner.
- A prominent and well-known settler in the Iowa Territory, he was one of the earliest settlers in Rock Island.
- He spent much of his life involved in the early settlement of the Mississippi Valley and the "Quad Cities".
- The present-day city of Davenport, Iowa, is named after him.
