Henry Bedinger Davenport Jr

• American

Henry B Davenport was a figure of industry and ambition, trained as a civil engineer and later admitted to the bar, whose career carried him into the developing oil regions of West Virginia and Texas. In an age when new fields promised both peril and prosperity, he proved an able organizer of oil companies and a steady hand in the management and development of gas and petroleum properties. His professional life reflects the restless enterprise of the post-Civil War generation, men who pressed westward and southward in pursuit of the nation's expanding industrial fortunes. - AsNotedIn

Lineage

• Father Lieut Henry Bedinger Davenport
• Mother Martha Clay Davenport