Davenport-Kingsbury family collection 1853-1885 1853-1858, 1861-1880 Davenport-Kingsbury family collection

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Davenport-Kingsbury family collection 1853-1885 1853-1858, 1861-1880 Davenport-Kingsbury family collection

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This collection consists of correspondence between members of the Davenport and Kingsbury families of Bradford and Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Rutland and Brandon, Vermont. Elijah ("E.") Davenport wrote to his family about frontier life in Wisconsin and Iowa in the 1850s, and his family members wrote about social and religious life in Vermont during the late 1860s and 1870s.

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William L. Clements Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6392272

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Burnham, Ellis J.

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Davenport, Elijah, b. ca. 1831

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Kingsbury, Charlotte M. Field, 1835-

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Barzillai Davenport was born in Dummerston, Vermont, on January 13, 1789, the son of Daniel Davenport and Hannah Rice; he had nine siblings. He moved to Brandon, Vermont, in 1822, where he began a legal practice and served as the town clerk for 41 years, as a justice of the peace for 28 years, and as a state representative between 1854 and 1855. He married Patty Simons on December 3, 1807, and they had five children: Minerva K., Fernando, Laura L., Emily C., and Charlotte. After the...

Davenport, Barzillai, 1789-1871

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Field, Minerva K. Davenport, 1816-1886

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Field, William M., b. 1814

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