Davenport family papers, 1800-1941.

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Davenport family papers, 1800-1941.

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Correspondence, accounts, deeds, mortgages, tax statements, wills, bonds, stock certificates, bills, receipts, business and legal papers, maps, photographs, and movie films of the Davenport family of Angelica, Allegany County, New York and Bath, Steuben County, and of related Cameron, Waterman, French, and other families. Featured most prominently are Charles and Ira Davenport, and their agent, J. W. Waterman. The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates. Includes papers of the Davenport Home for Girls (also known as the Davenport Home for Female Orphan Children), Bath, New York, and the Bath Presbyterian Church. Topics include western and frontier land speculation and investment, family relations, the problems of amassing capital and absentee ownership, banking, land taxation, forestry, and other matters pertaining to land ownership and management.

41.2 cubic ft; 29 v.; 2 reels movie film; 3 oversize folders.

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French family.

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Davenport Home for Female Orphan Children (Bath, N.Y.)

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Davenport family.

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Davenport Home for Girls (Bath, N.Y.)

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Davenport, Charles K.

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It has been suggested that the C. Davenport to whom this volume belonged was Charles Davenport of Taunton, Massachusetts, although that name does not appear in city directories of the time period covered by this volume. More likely, the volume was kept by Cornelius Davenport of New Bedford, who sold hats, caps, furs, umbrellas, gloves, cravets, etc., at 138 Union. He seems to have been a Quaker. From the description of Account book, 1856-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 261232433...

Bath Presbyterian Church (Bath, N.Y.)

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Cameron family.

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Davenport, Ira

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Waterman family.

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Waterman, J. W.

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