Davenport Past And Present indicated that George Davenport was an Indian Agent with Farnum & Farrar. He was born in England and that helped with the Native Americans. Davenport arrived at Fort Armstrong (at Rock Island, Illinois) as a contractor for the military troops in 1816. His wife was one of the first white women to settle there.
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| Davenport House (Rock Island, Illinois) |
When the Black Hawk War was imminent, U.S. Army General Gaines arrived at Fort Armstrong for a council with several chiefs:
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Note: Historical events converged at Rock Island, Illinois. Army doctor John Emerson, who owned Dred Scott, the named party in the infamous U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott Case [a Civil War precursor], had property near the Davenport house. [Emerson owned Scott when they moved from slave state Missouri to Illinois (where slavery was illegal)]
| Question Posed In The Dred Scott Case |
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