JOHN ALFRED DAVENPORT, elder son of the Rev. J. Radcliff
Davenport (Yale Coll. 1830) and Mehetabel W. (Newell) Davenport, was born on February 7, 1840, in Francestown, N. H., where his father was for three years pastor. During his boyhood the family residence was in Albany, N. Y. At the time of his graduation his father was rector of the Episcopal Church in Annapolis, Md , and his acquaintance there led to his taking the position of Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the U. S Naval Academy, then at Newport, R I.
In October, 1863, he was advanced to an Assistant Professorship, which he held until his resignation m December, 1864 He then began the study of law in the( Harvard Law School, where he was graduated in July, 1866 After a year and a half of study and travel m Euiope he was admitted to the New York bar in 1867, and from that time until his death practiced his profession in that city. In 1870 he formed a partnership with John C. Gray, Esq , which was dissolved in 1888 by Judge Gray's appointment to the Court of Appeals ; he was afterwards the head of the firm of Davenport, Smith & Perkins. His career at the bar was eminently successful, especially in connection with important railroad litigations, and the acuteness and faithfulness which were characteristic of all his work promised a yet more remarkable future In April, 1890, when suffenng somewhat from the effects of overwork, he left home on business in the Southwest, and while returning was prostiated by a severe cold. He reached Cincinnati with difficulty, and was taken to a hotel there, but after struggling with pneumonia for more than a week, typhoid symptoms supervened, and he died there on May 3, in his 51st year.
He was married, August 15,1874, to Miss Mary Fairfax Morris, daughter of Gouverneur Morris, of Morrisania, N. Y ; the marriage took place in England at the palace of Bishop Goodwin, of Carlisle, who is a relative of Mrs Davenport's She survives him with their children, two daughters.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf
Davenport (Yale Coll. 1830) and Mehetabel W. (Newell) Davenport, was born on February 7, 1840, in Francestown, N. H., where his father was for three years pastor. During his boyhood the family residence was in Albany, N. Y. At the time of his graduation his father was rector of the Episcopal Church in Annapolis, Md , and his acquaintance there led to his taking the position of Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the U. S Naval Academy, then at Newport, R I.
In October, 1863, he was advanced to an Assistant Professorship, which he held until his resignation m December, 1864 He then began the study of law in the( Harvard Law School, where he was graduated in July, 1866 After a year and a half of study and travel m Euiope he was admitted to the New York bar in 1867, and from that time until his death practiced his profession in that city. In 1870 he formed a partnership with John C. Gray, Esq , which was dissolved in 1888 by Judge Gray's appointment to the Court of Appeals ; he was afterwards the head of the firm of Davenport, Smith & Perkins. His career at the bar was eminently successful, especially in connection with important railroad litigations, and the acuteness and faithfulness which were characteristic of all his work promised a yet more remarkable future In April, 1890, when suffenng somewhat from the effects of overwork, he left home on business in the Southwest, and while returning was prostiated by a severe cold. He reached Cincinnati with difficulty, and was taken to a hotel there, but after struggling with pneumonia for more than a week, typhoid symptoms supervened, and he died there on May 3, in his 51st year.
He was married, August 15,1874, to Miss Mary Fairfax Morris, daughter of Gouverneur Morris, of Morrisania, N. Y ; the marriage took place in England at the palace of Bishop Goodwin, of Carlisle, who is a relative of Mrs Davenport's She survives him with their children, two daughters.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf
JOHN ALFRED DAVENPORT, elder son of the Rev. J. Radcliff
Davenport (Yale Coll. 1830) and Mehetabel W. (Newell) Davenport, was born on February 7, 1840, in Francestown, N. H., where his father was for three years pastor. During his boyhood the family residence was in Albany, N. Y. At the time of his graduation his father was rector of the Episcopal Church in Annapolis, Md , and his acquaintance there led to his taking the position of Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the U. S Naval Academy, then at Newport, R I.
In October, 1863, he was advanced to an Assistant Professorship, which he held until his resignation m December, 1864 He then began the study of law in the( Harvard Law School, where he was graduated in July, 1866 After a year and a half of study and travel m Euiope he was admitted to the New York bar in 1867, and from that time until his death practiced his profession in that city. In 1870 he formed a partnership with John C. Gray, Esq , which was dissolved in 1888 by Judge Gray's appointment to the Court of Appeals ; he was afterwards the head of the firm of Davenport, Smith & Perkins. His career at the bar was eminently successful, especially in connection with important railroad litigations, and the acuteness and faithfulness which were characteristic of all his work promised a yet more remarkable future In April, 1890, when suffenng somewhat from the effects of overwork, he left home on business in the Southwest, and while returning was prostiated by a severe cold. He reached Cincinnati with difficulty, and was taken to a hotel there, but after struggling with pneumonia for more than a week, typhoid symptoms supervened, and he died there on May 3, in his 51st year.
He was married, August 15,1874, to Miss Mary Fairfax Morris, daughter of Gouverneur Morris, of Morrisania, N. Y ; the marriage took place in England at the palace of Bishop Goodwin, of Carlisle, who is a relative of Mrs Davenport's She survives him with their children, two daughters.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf
Davenport (Yale Coll. 1830) and Mehetabel W. (Newell) Davenport, was born on February 7, 1840, in Francestown, N. H., where his father was for three years pastor. During his boyhood the family residence was in Albany, N. Y. At the time of his graduation his father was rector of the Episcopal Church in Annapolis, Md , and his acquaintance there led to his taking the position of Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the U. S Naval Academy, then at Newport, R I.
In October, 1863, he was advanced to an Assistant Professorship, which he held until his resignation m December, 1864 He then began the study of law in the( Harvard Law School, where he was graduated in July, 1866 After a year and a half of study and travel m Euiope he was admitted to the New York bar in 1867, and from that time until his death practiced his profession in that city. In 1870 he formed a partnership with John C. Gray, Esq , which was dissolved in 1888 by Judge Gray's appointment to the Court of Appeals ; he was afterwards the head of the firm of Davenport, Smith & Perkins. His career at the bar was eminently successful, especially in connection with important railroad litigations, and the acuteness and faithfulness which were characteristic of all his work promised a yet more remarkable future In April, 1890, when suffenng somewhat from the effects of overwork, he left home on business in the Southwest, and while returning was prostiated by a severe cold. He reached Cincinnati with difficulty, and was taken to a hotel there, but after struggling with pneumonia for more than a week, typhoid symptoms supervened, and he died there on May 3, in his 51st year.
He was married, August 15,1874, to Miss Mary Fairfax Morris, daughter of Gouverneur Morris, of Morrisania, N. Y ; the marriage took place in England at the palace of Bishop Goodwin, of Carlisle, who is a relative of Mrs Davenport's She survives him with their children, two daughters.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf
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