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Early Days In Davenport And Rock Island

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Author : Nick Vulich
language : en
Publisher: Nick Vulich
Release Date : 2022-05-04

Early Days In Davenport And Rock Island written by Nick Vulich and has been published by Nick Vulich this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-04 with History categories.

Early Days in Davenport and Rock Island looks at twelve people who made their mark on the Quad Cities. Some you know. Others are lost to history. Black Hawk and Keokuk are the Sac and Fox chiefs who inhabited the area along the Mississippi and Rock Rivers when the first settlers arrived. Keokuk understood that it was impossible to beat the whites and did his best to work with them. Black Hawk was a cantankerous, proud old man who loved his lands and refused to give them up. Things came to a head in 1832. The whites chased Black Hawk and the British Band out of Illinois in what would become known as the Black Hawk War. George Davenport came to Rock Island in 1816 as a sutler to the troops who built Fort Armstrong. Two years later, he set off on his own trading with the Winnebago, Sac, and Fox tribes. He built his home on Rock Island, not far from Fort Armstrong, and over time became one of the richest, most powerful men in the area. Antoine Le Claire came to Fort Armstrong in 1818 as an Indian interpreter. William Clark, Governor of the Louisiana Territory, sent him to Father Neil’s School for Boys in St. Louis to learn English. Le Claire spoke seventeen Indian dialects, as well as French, English, and Spanish. He served as a translator at over a dozen treaty negotiations and won the respect of all the tribes. The Indians rewarded Le Claire by gifting him two tracts of land where the city of Moline now sits and two more on the present sites of Le Claire and Davenport. After the Black Hawk War, he turned his talents to town building. When he died in 1861, Antoine Le Claire was thought to be the richest man in Iowa. Thomas Forsyth began trading with the Indians in the late 1790s. He served as the Indian agent at Peoria during the War of 1812. He became the Indian agent at Fort Armstrong in 1817. From his first days on the island, Forsyth tried to convince the Indians to relocate west of the Mississippi. Most of the time, it was like talking to a wall. Eventually, Keokuk and Wapello moved their people across the river - only Black Hawk refused. John Buford grew up in Rock Island in the 1830s and 1840s. His father was a state senator. Two of his brothers served as mayors of Rock Island. His half-brother, Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, rose to major general during the civil war. John Buford graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1848. He served at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, then in Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. He is credited with picking the site for the battle of Gettysburg, then delaying the rebel troops for two hours, giving Generals Meade and Reynolds time to move their troops up. Reverend Ned Lee started the People’s Union Mission in Davenport’s Bucktown District in 1895. Rather than give people advice, Lee gave them what they needed, whether it was clothing, food, or just a good time at one of his outings. He started out speaking at local churches. Sunday after Sunday, Lee talked about his mission work and what could be done. After that, he took his message to local businessmen. The funny thing was the churches embraced his mission work, but the saloon owners gave him the money to fund his mission. Over time, the People’s Union Mission morphed into the Davenport Friendly Society or the Friendly House. Alice French was a Davenport novelist who wrote under the pen name Octave Thanet. She helped start the “local color” or realism movement in the late 1800s. She was one of the highest-paid authors in the country, but as time went on and writing styles changed, Alice refused to change. Today, she is best known as that lesbian writer from the turn of the century. There’s more, but you get the idea. These are just a few of the Quad City people who made the area what it is today.

Early Day Of Rock Island And Davenport

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Author : John W.|Burrows Spencer (J. M. D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

Early Day Of Rock Island And Davenport written by John W.|Burrows Spencer (J. M. D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Electronic books categories.

The Early Day Of Rock Island And Davenport The Narratives Of J W Spencer And J M D Burrows

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Author : John W. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : The Lakeside Press, R. R.Donnelley & sons Company
Release Date : 1942

The Early Day Of Rock Island And Davenport The Narratives Of J W Spencer And J M D Burrows written by John W. Spencer and has been published by Chicago : The Lakeside Press, R. R.Donnelley & sons Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Black Hawk War, 1832 categories.

Early Days Of Rock Island Illinois And Davenport Iowa

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Author : M. M. Quaife
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-03-01

Early Days Of Rock Island Illinois And Davenport Iowa written by M. M. Quaife and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-01 with categories.

The Trader At Rock Island

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Author : Regena Trant Schantz
language : en
Publisher: Bublish, Inc.
Release Date : 2020-05-05

The Trader At Rock Island written by Regena Trant Schantz and has been published by Bublish, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with History categories.

Throughout the Upper Mississippi Valley, George Davenport's name was widely known as a trader with the Sauk and Mesquakie, the U.S. Army, and settlers who were attracted to the untapped waterpower surrounding Davenport's home on Rock Island. The Trader at Rock Island tells the story of George Davenport and his entry into the Indian trade and his eventual transition into services and businesses marketed toward the new settlers. After the Black Hawk War, Davenport promoted land development as the frontier turned from Indian land to commercial centers of industry. By the time of Davenport's murder in 1845, the cities now known today as the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois were in their infancy.

Rock Island Employes Magazine

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921

Rock Island Employes Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1921 with categories.

Baseball At Davenport S John O Donnell Stadium

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Author : Tim Rask
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2004

Baseball At Davenport S John O Donnell Stadium written by Tim Rask and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

John O'Donnell Stadium is one picturesque ballpark. With Centennial Bridge crossing the Mississippi River down the first base line and the Davenport skyline overlooking left center field, it is a minor league baseball landmark. John O'Donnell Stadium has been home to Quad Cities baseball since 1931-never mind the occasional flood. And though the teams have come and gone-the Blue Sox, Cubs, Quads, Angels, River Bandits-one constant has been the embrace of baseball itself by the local fans. Old-timers will remember cheering on Jim Bunning of the 1951 Quad Cities Tigers, the first Q.C. ballplayer to make it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Since 1960, when Quad Cities joined the Midwest League, Q.C. baseball fans have seen dozens of young players like Dante Bichette, Carney Lansford, and Billy Wagner pass through John O'Donnell Stadium en route to the Big Leagues. And, if they didn't blink, they might have witnessed Chuck Finley pitch 12 scoreless innings in 1986 before being hurried up to the California Angels.