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John F. Davenport
John F. Davenport is a native of Salem County, N. J., born Dec. 11, 1840. He received a common-school education in his native State, and worked at farming until seventeen years of age, then worked at millwrighting with his father until 1860, when he came to Richmond, Ind., and was employed by J. C. Ratcliff for some months, when meeting with an accident that disabled him from manual labor for some time he engaged with Dr. O. Leary as advertising agent; was with him and Dr. Worroll till September, 1862, when he enlisted in Company C, Eighty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and served till June 14, 1865. He was promoted to Corporal, October, 1862; to Color Sergeant, Dec. 8, 1862; Orderly Sergeant, Nov. 6, 1864; Second Lieutenant, June 1, 1865. He was in the battles of Chickamanga, Buzzard's Roost, Rocky Face, Dalton, Resaca, Kingston, Pumpkin Vine Creek, Pine Mountain, Kennesaw, Neal Dow Church, Culps Farm, Peach Tree Creek, siege of Atlanta, battles of Franklin and Nashville. At the latter place he received a gun-shot wound in right shoulder. After the war he returned to Richmond and was employed in the wood department of the Robinson Machine Works for about ten years; was then elected City Wood Measurer, and served two years. Since then he has been in the brokerage business. Mr. Davenport is a member of Woodward Lodge, No. 212, and Oriental Encampment, No. 28, I. O. O. F.; Osceola Tribe, No. 15, O. R. M.; Iola Lodge, No. 53, K. of P.; Richmond Temple, No. 4, P. O; and Sol Meredith Post, No. 55, G. A. R. He was married Oct. 21, 1867, to Sarah E., daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Mills, and grand-daughter of Andrew Hoover. They have two children.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2