I believe that I address this subject here several years ago, but here's a reprise. A Remarkable Man - Colonel George Davenport of Rock Island, Illinois, for whom Davenport, Iowa, across the Mississippi from Rock Island was named--although the City was platted and promoted by Marmaduke and James Davenport, of ALTONA ancestry, from Kentucky.         George Davenport, England born, was impressed into the British Navy when in his mid-teens and was serving on a Man-of-war that put into Philadelphia in the mid-1790s.  Shortly before the British ship was due to sail from Philadelphia, Davenport broke a leg, and was summarily tossed on the dock and abandoned as the ship sailed away. A U.S. Army recruiting sergeant gathered Davenport up, nursed him through his infirmity and enlisted him in the U.S. Army, where Davenport, being possessed of a both brains and acumen, had an admirable career, particularly on the Mississippi Frontier.   By the time of the War of 1812 and the American invasion of Lower Canada, Davenport had become a Captain of Infantry and distinguished himself at the Battles of Lundy's Lane and Thames.  Postwar he was stationed variously along the Mississippi Frontier, and having gained patrons among politicians as well as merchants, retired from the Army in the early 1820s, if I recall correctly, to accept appointment as U.S. Indian Agent for the Northwest Tribes, headquartered at Fort Rock Island, Illinois (subsequently know as Rock Island Arsenal).  This was at least fifteen years before the ALTONA Davenport brothers James and Marmaduke laid out the city across the Mississippi.           Davenport's colonelcy was either militia or honorary, for he rose no higher than Captain in the Regular Army.   He was an outstanding success as an Indian Agent, for the Indians regarded him as an "Englishman," and as such, he was more acceptable to the tribes (most of whom had been allied with the British under Tecumseh in the War of 1812) and was so admired by the Tama Tribe that they adopted the surname of DAVENPORT.   (When I was on the faculty of the University of Iowa in the early 1950s, I met several Davenports who were Tamas, an absorbed tribe centering in Tama County, Iowa.   Five of the seven who constituted the Tribal Council then were Davenports.)  Colonel Davenport was responsible for bringing in Blackhawk and ending that short frontier war.   The Colonel was the only American that Blackhawk trusted, and when Davenport went to get him off the warpath, he came in peaceably--and ended what had the prospect of a prolonged frontier war into a peacepipe powwow at Rock Island that fizzled out the prospects of confrontation.   (Blackhawk had to do some time in prison, and was done as warrior chief.)            Colonel George prospered, was a wealthy merchant apart from being Indian Agent, and was revered and honored on both sides of the Mississippi.   He had a sizable family, as I recall. (I did not pursue his genealogy, for I knew he was not a Pamunkey.)  The Colonel's death and its aftermath involved what was possibly the largest causa celebre of the Upper Mississippi Frontier in the Nineteenth Century.   On a Fourth of July, the Colonel, being in his sixties and under the weather, did not attend the celebration at the Fort, but remained at home.   Four thiefs/thugs decided that if everybody was at Fourth activities, they could rob and plunder Colonel Davenport's residence.   When they unexpectedly found him home, they killed him, robbed the house, and escaped.   The hue and cry among the populace was huge, and each of the gang, which had scattered in all directions in the face of the clamor, was pursued until either caught and, following trial, hanged or killed in apprehension.   Historians noted that the crime was considered so heinous that no jurisdiction afforded the murderers any succor.   Writs of extradition were ignored--if the pursuers from Rock Island brought a murderer to heel in Detroit, the local authorities let the Rock Islanders have a free hand.         There is considerable history written about the Colonel, most of which centers on his murder and its aftermath, but there are also several biographies available.         As to Marmaduke and James Davenport, they moved on up the Mississippi, platting river towns as they went. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ