ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

DAVENPORT FAMILY PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL #1424

DATES: 1906-1999

SIZE: 16.75 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: The Davenport Family Papers were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by John Davenport, St. Paul, Minnesota on August 7, 2000 (Acc.# 2000- 2480).

ACCESS: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

RELATED PUBLICATIONS:

Complete Registry of the Davenports in America. By Sharon Taylor. Halbert’s: 1984.

Call Number: Genealogy CS71.D247 1984b

Davenports Across America. Published by Mary Whitney, Ottsville, Pennsylvania: 1987.

Call Number: Genealogy CS71.D247 1987

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

The Davenport Family Papers largely focus on Sumner and Jessie Burnham, their daughter Margaret (Burnham) Davenport, her husband, Willard E. Davenport, and their son John Brian Davenport.

Sumner Burnham was born June 23, 1882 near Bushberry, Nebraska, to Horace A. Burnham and Lizzie M. Frost. His family moved to a farm near Westerville, Nebraska, in 1883. After the death of his mother in 1888, he went to live with his uncle and aunt, Sumner W. and Sarah Burnham, on their farm in Yankee Hill, near Lincoln, Nebraska. He was employed by his uncle in the First National Bank of Lincoln as head bookkeeper. On July 15, 1905, Sumner Burnham married Jessie Pearl Dixon at Lincoln, Nebraska.

Jessie Pearl Dixon was born in Indiana on March 19, 1883, to William L. Dixon and Rosa Hedge. At the age of six months, she and her family moved to a farm in Wilbur, Nebraska, where she attended school. Following her marriage to Sumner Burnham, the couple moved from Lincoln to a homestead five miles north of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where Sumner Burnham worked as assistant cashier in the First National Bank. In 1913, the family moved to York, Nebraska, where Sumner and his brother, Frank Burnham, were associated with the York Brick and Tile Company. In 1918, the family moved back to a ranch in Sioux County, thirty miles northeast of Scottsbluff. In 1920, they moved to the Bayard community, residing first on a farm and later in the town of Bayard.

Sumner Burnham's civic and community interests were numerous. He served on the Sioux County School Board as well as the District 96 school board in Morrill County. He was a director of the Nebraska Beet Growers Association for a number of years. For sixteen years, beginning in 1934, he served on the Agricultural Adjustment Administration County Committee. From 1954 to 1964, he served as crop adjuster and county representative for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. He helped lay the ground work for the formation of the Chimney Rock Public Power District; he served continuously on the district's board of directors from the time of its organization in 1935 through his death in 1964 and for 22 of those years he was the president of the board. Burnham was a member of the Bayard City Council, treasurer of the Bayard Lions Club, charter member and treasurer of the Bayard Chamber of Commerce, member of the board of trustees of the United Presbyterian Church of Bayard, member of Signal Hill Chapter 282, and member of the Nebraska State Historical Society. Jessie Burnham was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Sumner and Jessie Burnham had two daughters: Frances Marie (Hunt) and Margaret Jane (Davenport). Jessie Burnham died on September 20, 1961, followed by Sumner on July 30, 1964. Both are buried at Fairview Cemetery in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

Margaret Jane (Burnham) Davenport was born on September 21, 1912, in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. She attended public schools in Bayard, Nebraska, and graduated in 1928. She then attended Chadron State College for one year. In 1932, Margaret Burnham married Willard E. Davenport, a teacher in the Bayard High School, where she worked as a secretary. They lived in Denver, Colorado, where Willard finished his graduate work at the University of Colorado in 1936, while she worked at a bank and insurance company. They moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota, in 1942 where Willard Davenport taught Marketing and Management at the University of North Dakota. In 1943, Willard worked for the Institute of Transit Advertising in Chicago, until he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1945. During his time in the army, Margaret Davenport returned to Bayard and lived with her parents.

After World War II, the Davenports returned to Grand Forks. From 1947-1950, Margaret Davenport worked in several offices at UND, including the Registrar's Office. She resigned when her first son, James B. Davenport (March 28, 1950- June 19, 1950), was born. A second son, John Brian Davenport, was born in 1951. Following Willard Davenport's death in 1963, Margaret returned to UND where she held the position of administration assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs until her retirement in 1977.

Margaret Davenport was very active in service and social organizations including the Daughters of the Eastern Star, PEO, Thursday Music Club, Franklin Club, and Roundtable. She was also a loyal member of the First Presbyterian Church of Grand Forks for many years, serving as a deacon, a member of the new organ committee, and the bell choir.

Margaret Davenport died November 11, 1999, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Grand Forks.

Willard Eugene Davenport was born December 20, 1902, in St. Anthony, Iowa, to Perry Arthur and Sadie Davenport. He received his elementary and high school education at Swea City, Iowa. He graduated from Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929. He was awarded a Master's degree from the University of Colorado in 1936, and attended further graduate study at the University of Denver in 1938-1939 and during the summers of 1940 and 1941.

Willard Davenport's early tenure as an educator included teacher, coach, and superintendent in several high schools in Nebraska and Colorado, prior to serving as Head of the Department of Business Administration at Kansas Wesleyan University, from 1940-1942. Davenport first came to UND in 1942 as head of the Marketing Department. From 1943 to 1945 he served with the market research staff of the Institute of Transit Advertising in Chicago. He entered the United States Army in 1945. As an acting Lieutenant Colonel, Davenport taught at American Servicemen's Universities in Shrivenham, England, Biarritz, France, and Bremerhaven, Germany. He returned from Europe as the Head of the Department of Marketing at the UND College of Business Administration.

Willard Davenport was active in social, civic, and church organizations. He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church and a member of the Franklin Club, the Masonic Lodge, and the Lions Club, of which he served as president in 1954-1955. He was also involved in the Sons of the American Revolution, the American Marketing Association, Pi Omega Pi, Delta Sigma Pi, the American Association of University Professors, and the YMCA. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Sales Executives Committee, 1953-1955, and First Federal Savings and Loan Association. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, and for ten years, he was named in the Who's Who in Commerce and Industry in the United States.

Willard Davenport died March 18, 1963, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Grand Forks.

John Brian Davenport was born in Grand Forks in 1951. He graduated from Grand Forks Central High School in 1969. After attending one year at the University of North Dakota, he transferred to Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1970. He graduated magna cum laude in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Davenport attended the University of Denver and received a Master of Arts degree in Librarianship and Archival Studies in 1974.

John Davenport returned to Grand Forks in 1974, and was employed in the Department of Special Collections at UND’s Chester Fritz Library. He moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1976 and worked for one year at the University of Minnesota, Immigrant History Research Center while a part-time graduate student. In 1977, he became Head of Special Collections at the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, University of St. Thomas. In 1986, he received a Master of Arts degree in History from the University of Minnesota, followed by a Ph.D. in 1994. His dissertation was entitled John Davenport (1597-1670): A Puritan Clerical Archetype. Since 2002, he has been a Professor of History at North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Davenport Family Papers date from 1906-1909, and consist of materials related to the members of the Davenport family. The collection is arranged in chronological order beginning with Sumner and Jessie Burnham, their daughter Margaret Davenport, her husband Willard Davenport, and ending with their son John Davenport. General family materials are arranged last. The collection is divided into five series:

Series I: Sumner and Jessie Burnham
This series consists of personal information about Sumner and Jessie Burnham including family history manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, records of their estate, and funeral arrangements. Box 1, Folder 1- Box 1, Folder 16

Series II:Margaret (Burnham) Davenport
This series contains materials pertaining to Margaret Davenport's personal life, involvement with civic and community organizations, employment history, and funeral arrangements. Correspondence is also included, and has been arranged in alphabetical order by writer. Box 1, Folder 17- Box 3, Folder 12

Series III:Willard E. Davenport
This series consists mainly of information pertaining to Willard Davenport's education and positions at various schools and colleges. Also included are papers Davenport wrote, materials related to his involvement in World War II, correspondence, financial records, and funeral materials. Box 3, Folder 13- Box 4, Folder 32

Series IV:John B. Davenport
This series contains materials pertaining to John Davenport's personal life, beginning with his youth and education, high school and college papers, and correspondence. The bulk of this series consists of materials collected while writing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Minnesota. These materials are arranged last.
Box 4, Folder 33- Box 9, Folder 27

Series V: General Family
The final series contains information pertaining to the general history of the Davenport family, including extended family members and the history of the towns in which they settled. Box 10, Folder 1- Box 10, Folder 28

Series VI: Photographs and Photo Albums
This series contains photo albums and envelopes of random pictures of different trips and events in the lives of the Davenports. There are also 50 identified pictures of various family members.
Box 10, Folder 29 - Box 13, Folder 10

Thirty-eight photographs were separated and added to the Orin G. Libby Photograph Collection. Six reels of microfilm were separated and placed in the microfilm cabinets in the Family History Room. These reels of microfilm were all references used by John Davenport in writing his dissertation, John Davenport (1597-1670): A Puritan Clerical Archetype. In addition, three audio cassette tapes were separated and added to the Audio Tape Collection. These tapes record verbal reminiscences by Margaret Davenport regarding Burnham family history and her early memories about growing up in Nebraska.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder
SERIES I: Sumner & Jessie Burnham

1. Family history manuscript
2. "Some Reminiscences"
3. Personal history, Sumner
4. Diary, Sumner
5. Jessie Pearl Dixon and Dixon Family History
6. House: 1906
7. Community Involvement
8. Estate, Sumner
9. Estate, Jessie
10. Estate, Sumner & Jessie
11. Property History
12. N. McFarland et.al
13. Mortgage
14. Funeral Arrangements, Sumner
15. Funeral Arrangements, Jessie
16. Correspondence: 1950-1960

SERIES II: Margaret Burnham Davenport

17. Youth
18. High School
19. Schoolwork
20. Schoolwork
21. High School Plays and Musicals
22. Newspaper Articles
23. High School Autograph Pages
24. High School Scrapbook
25. High School Scrapbook (part 2)
26. Graduation Invitations
27. Scrapbook, post highschool (Bayard ca. 1930's)
28. Sketchbook
29. Burma Shave Jingles: 1936
30. Address Book
31. Appointment Books
32. Grand Forks Community Music Association
33. Grand Forks Symphony Association
34. Thursday Music Club

Box 2
Folder

1. PEO
2. PEO Sisterhood
3. PEO, Carrie B. Simpson Bookshelf: 1948-1975
4. PEO, Carrie B. Simpson
5. Presbyterian Church, Grand Forks
6. "Gering Courier", Gering, Nebraska, 100th Anniversary
7. Cottey College
8. UND
9. UND, Awards
10. UND, Margaret Barr
11. UND, Dr. James Grassick
12. UND, Miscellaneous
13. Sheyenne Care Center
14. Assets
15. Funeral Arrangements, Amundson Funeral Home: 1999
16. Funeral Arrangements, Amundson Funeral Home: 1999
17. Death, Beneficiaries
18. Eulogy, by John Davenport
19. Donations
20. Funeral Announcements
21. Condolences: November 12, 1999 - November 19, 1999
22. Condolences: November 20, 1999 - November 26, 1999
23. Condolences: undated

Correspondence- Burnham, Sumner

24. Prior to 1945
25. 1946 - 1950
26. 1951 - 1955
27. 1956 - 1960
28. 1961 - 1965

Correspondence- Davenport, John B.

29. 29. 1970 - 1975
30. 30. 1976 - 1980
31. 31. 1981 - 1985

Correspondence- Davenport, Willard E.

32. August - November 1945
33. December 1945 - May 1946

Correspondence- Davenport, Rowland and Lillian

34. 1942 - 1981

Box 3
Folder
Correspondence- Davenport, Sadie

1. Pre 1950
2. 1951 - 1955

Correspondence- Hunt, Frances

3. Prior to 1960
4. 1961 - 1965
5. 1966 - 1970
6. 1971 - 1975
7. 1976 - 1980
8. 1981 - 1983
9. 1984 - 1985
10. 1986 - 1990

Correspondence- Miscellaneous

11. 1938 - 1964
12. 1965 - 1998

SERIES III: Willard E. Davenport

13. High School teaching through Bayard, Nebraska
14. Colleges attended
15. College teaching before UND
16. University of Colorado
17. Universities of Colorado/ Denver
18. Kansas Wesleyan University
19. Kansas Wesleyan University, 1941 yearbook
20. Shrivenham American University
21. Worthington Junior College (Minnesota)
22. Illness at Worthington Junior College
23. UND
24. UND, Marketing
25. UND, Marketing award
26. Willard and Margaret
27. Family history
28. Community Involvement
29. Franklin Club
30. Lions Club
31. Lions Club Newsletter
32. Presbyterian Church, Ordination

Box 4
Folder

1. Sons of American Revolution (SAR)
2. Army Services
3. WWII, Selective Service
4. WWII, Transportation
5. WWII, North Dakota contacts
6. WWII, France
7. WWII, Germany
8. WWII, Great Britain
9. WWII, Correspondence
10. WWII, Ration book
11. Republican Party
12. Politics
13. Finances: 1944 - 1947
14. Finances: 1948 - 1950
15. Finances: 1951 - 1952
16. Finances: 1953
17. Mortgage Records
18. Grand Forks Abstract Co.
19. Thesis- Iowa State Teachers' College: 1936
20. A Brief of Accounting Systems, Their Design and Installation
21. A Complete Systems of Accounts for the Hospital, Denver, CO
22. Departmental History- Marketing
23. The Lettuce Industry in Colorado
24. Operational Results and Compilation of General Information- College Book Stores
25. The Place of Advertising in the American System
26. Scotland
27. Survey of the Wholesale Market Area of the City of Omaha, NE
28. Death, newspaper clippings
29. Biography
30. Eulogy
31. Condolences: 1963
32. Correspondence (miscellaneous): 1930 - 1963

SERIES IV: John B. Davenport

33. Childhood and Adolescence
34. Stegosaurus drawing
35. Elementary School
36. Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts
37. Highschool
38. General TEC
39. TEC 25
40. TEC 27
41. TEC 28
42. TEC 30
43. TEC 33
44. TEC 36
45. TEC 44
46. Deaf TEC 1

Box 5
Folder

1. FIAT 3
2. Journey 2
3. Genealogical Organizations
4. Music
5. UND
6. Macalester College
7. Macalester College, notes
8. Macalester College, Irish Interim
9. University of Denver
10. University of Denver
11. University of Minnesota, Ph.D.
12. University of Minnesota, diplomas
13. Foreign Service
14. Speech Outlines
15. High School and College Papers
16. High School and College Papers cont.
17. The Cathedrals and Prebendaries of York and Durham in the 18th Century
18. Cathedral Reform in the Church of England, 1832-1885
19. Christian Morality
20. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970
21. Ethnicity and Religion as Factors Determining a Loyalist
22. GGF CommUniversity, citation
23. Guide to the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection
24. The Inclusion of Marxist Periodicals in Standard Library Indexes, Bibliographies, and Abstracts
25. Martin Luther, 1483-1983
26. Nature and Evolution of Sterne's Catholic Reference in 'Tristam Shandy' and 'The Sentimental Journey'
27. North Dakota's Socialist Traditions
28. Review– Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective
29. Saints Anchor Hold in All Storms and Tempests, 1661-1663
30. Some Reflections on Peter Hebblethwaite's 'The Popes and Politics'
31. Three Victorian Writers
32. Eighteenth Century English Notes
33. Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe
34. Modern British History, 1846-1901
35. The Person and Mission of Jesus
36. Introduction to Religious Studies
37. Readings in American History
38. Theological Methods and Resources
39. American Colonial History
40. New Testament
41. Genealogy Background
42. English History, Winter 1977
43. English History, Fall 1976
44. English History, Spring 1977

Box 6
Folder
Correspondence

1. Davenport, Margaret, 1964 - 1989
2. Davenport, Margaret, 1990 - 1999
3. Davenport, Rowland and Lillian, 1963 - 1998
4. Duchschere, Kyle, Kevin, Paul, 1978 - 1998
5. Freier, Jan S. Weiss, 1976 - 1978
6. Gudmunson, Lowell, 1979 - 1992
7. Harriman- Rankin Alliance, 1979 - 1996
8. Hazen, Robert, 1979 - 1990
9. Hunt, Frances, Bob, and Cousins, 1973 - 1998
10. Kazmierczak, Audrey, 1980 - 1991
11. Munkwitz-Smith, Lisa, 1975 - 1992
12. Stolt, William and Barbara, 1973 - 1986
13. A-E misc.
14. F-J misc.
15. K-O misc.
16. P-T misc.
17. U-Z misc.

Dissertation Materials

18. Davenport, "Hilton Castle Sermons" 1 of 2
19. Davenport, "Hilton Castle Sermons" 2 of 2
20. New Haven Sermons, 1 of 2
21. New Haven Sermons, 2 of 2
22. Winthrop, "History of NE"
23. Bacon, "Thirteen Historical Discourses"
24. New Haven Laws
25. Preston, John, Saints Daily Exercise, "To the Reader" by Davenport and Sibbes
26. Norton, "Life of Cotton"

Box 7
Folder

1. Preston, John, "The Saints Qualification" 1 of 5
2. Preston, John, "The Saints Qualification" 2 of 5
3. Preston, John, "The Saints Qualification" 3 of 5
4. Davenport, Amzi Benedict, "Supplement to... Davenport Family"
5. Davenport, Amzi Benedict, "History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family"
6. Research Notes- New England (see also "Christ Church")
7. Davenport Background, Computer Searches, "GNML"
8. Research in Europe, February - March 1993
9. Background Papers
10. Yale– Beinecke Rare Book and Ms. Library
11. American Antiquarian Society
12. Folger Shakespeare Library
13. Connecticut Historical Society
14. University of St. Thomas- ILL
15. Massachusetts Historical Society
16. Dockery, "Christopher Davenport"
17. Connecticut State Library (contains genealogical material)
18. Shepard, Douglas, "The Wolcott Shorthand Notebook Transcribed" 1 of 2
19. Shepard, Douglas, "The Wolcott Shorthand Notebook Transcribed" 2 of 2
20. Stoever, "Faire and Easy Way to Heaven"
21. UMI (includes Janet Knight Correspondence)
22. Mather, Cotton, "Memoirs, Relating to the Lives of the Ever-Memorable..."
23. Davies, "Worship of American Puritans"
24. Hill, "History of S. Church"

Box 8
Folder

1. Trumbell, "History of Connecticut"
2. Hutchinson, "History of Massachuset Bay"
3. Morse and Parish, "Compendious History of NE"
4. Short Articles and Reviews on John Davenport
5. Davis, "Hopkins Grammar School"
6. Hall, "Antinomian Controversy"
7. Walker, "Creeds and Platforms of Congress"
8. Cameron
9. Calder, "Activities of the Puritan Faction of the Church of England"
10. Davies, "Worship of the English Puritans"
11. Hall, "The Faithful Shepherd"
12. Kendall, "Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649"
13. Rohr, "The Covenant of Grace in Puritan Thought"
14. Selement, "Keepers of the Vineyard"
15. Stearns, "Congregationalism in the Dutch Netherlands"
16. Toon, "Puritans, the Millennium and the Future of Israel"
17. Wallace, "Puritans and Predestination"
18. Larzer, "The Career of John Cotton"
19. Cragg, "Puritanism in the Period of the Great Persecution"
20. Battis, "Saints and Sectaries- Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy"
21. Bercovitch, "The American Jeremiad"
22. Bercovitch, "Typology and Early American Literature"
23. Braithwaite, "The Beginnings of Quakerism"
24. Caldwell, "The Puritan Conversation Narrative"
25. Carter, "The English Reformed Church in Amsterdam"
26. Cliffe, "The Puritan Gentry"
27. Collinson, "A Comment: Concerning the Name Puritan"
28. Foote, "The Significance and Influence of the Cambridge Platform of 1648"
29. Ford, "Davenport- Paget Controversy"
30. Gorman, "A Laudian Attempt to 'Tune the Pulpit'"
31. Hall, "The Half-Way Covenant of 1662"
32. Huntington, "History of Stamford, Connecticut"
33. Bercovitch, "Typology in Puritan New England: The Williams- Cotton Controversy"
34. Miller, "The Half-Way Covenant"
35. Somerville, "Conversion vs. the Early Puritan Covenant of Grace"
36. Sprunger, "The Dutch Career of Thomas Hooker"
37. Caldwell, "The Antinomian Language of Controversy"
38. Miller, "Preparation for Salvation in 17th Century New England"
39. Habegger, "Preparing the Soul for Christ"
40. Palmer, "Reverend William Hooke, 1601-1678"
41. Elwell, "Evangelical Dictionary of Theology"
42. Archer, "Puritan Town Planning in New Haven"
43. Sprunger, "Archbishop Laud's Campaign Against Puritanism at the Hague"
44. Miller, "Declension in a Bible Commonwealth"
45. Parker, "The Feoffs of Impropriations"
46. Freshfield, "Some Remarks upon the Book of Records and History of the Parish of St. Stephen"
47. Background Papers
48. Preston, John, "The Saints Qualification" 4 of 5
49. Preston, John, "The Saints Qualification" 5 of 5
50. Saloman's Pest House
51. Scudder, Christians Daily Walk
52. Sibbes, "Saints Cordials"

Box 9
Folder

1. Davenport, John, AAS MSS. 1 of 2
2. Davenport, John, AAS MSS. 2 of 2
3. "Another Essay for the Investigation of Truth, 1663"
4. Davenport, "An Answer of the Elders of the Several Churches in New England, 1643"
5. Davenport, "An Apologie of the Churches in New England for Church Covenant"
6. Davenport, "An Apologetical Reply" (to Paget) 1636
7. Davenport, "A Chatechisme Containing the Chief Heads of Christian Religion"
8. Davenport, "Christ's Church and His Government of It" AAS
9. Knowledge of Christ Indispensably Required 1652
10. Davenport Notebook 1
11. Davenport Notebook 2
12. Power of Congregational Churches Asserted 1645-1652
13. Davenport, "Reply to 7 Questions" Anti-Synod of 1662
14. Best, William, "Churches Plea for Her Right" 1635
15. Davenport, "An Exhortation to the Restoring... Brotherly Communion" (1641)
16. Cotton, John, "A Discourse about Civil Government in a New Plantation" (1638)
17. Davenport, "Witches of Huntington"
18. Mather, Increase, "Mystery of Israel's Salvation"
19. Mather, Richard, "Church Government and Church Covenant Discussed" (1643)
20. AAS MSS, Mather Papers, "Apologie"
21. Mather, Richard, "A Defense of the Arguments of the Synod"
22. Paget, John, "Answer to the Unjust Complaints"
23. Preston, John, Breast-Plate of Faith and Love, "To the Christian Reader" 1 of 2
24. Preston, John, Breast-Plate of Faith and Love, "To the Christian Reader" 2 of 2
25. Preston, John, "The New Covenant" 1 of 2
26. Preston, John, "The New Covenant" 2 of 2
27. Stiles, Ezra, "A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I"
28. Notecards
29. Davenport, John, Dissertation, John Davenport (1597-1670): A Puritan Clerical Archetype

Box 10
Folder
SERIES V: General Family

1. Bayard, NB- High School and History
2. Burnham, S.H.
3. Burnham Cousins, Aunts, Uncles
4. Burnham-Frost Family History
5. Burnham Family Lineage Charts, v.12, 1978
6. Davenport, Sadie
7. Burnham, S.W. and Sarah
8. Burnham, S.A. and Lizzie Frost
9. Chadron State College
10. Chicago World's Exhibition: 1934
11. Civil War Diary, Sumner Burnham's Grandfather
12. Davenport Births
13. Davenport-Ingraham Family History
14. Davenport, James B.
15. Davenport, Perry and Sadie
16. Davenport, Rowland and Lillian
17. Europe Trip: 1966
18. Free Masonry
19. Grand Forks, North Dakota - History
20. Hunt Cousins, Photos
21. Hunt, Francis Burnham
22. Hunt, Francis and Bob
23. Kelty and Dog Shows
24. Maine History
25. Maine History cont.
26. Simla, Co
27. Swea City, Iowa
28. UND, misc.

SERIES VI: Photographs and Photo Albums

29. Willard E. Davenport as a Freshman at Centre College, Kentucky, circa 1920. Also, pictures of the Davenport farm near Swea City, Iowa, and of Kentucky around the same time.
30. Pictures of Margaret and Willard Davenport from the summer they were married, 1933, around Bayard, Nebraska, as well as Colorado and South Dakota.
31. Appears to be pictures of trips in the last 1930s to early 1940s to Montana or Oregon to visit Rowland (Willard's brother) and Lillian Davenport in Butte, Montana and Linfield, Eugene, Portland, Oregon. Dogs are Kelty, Chigger, and MacDuff - pure-bred Scotties. Also graduation at University of Colorado (M.A. - Willard Davenport) in late 1930s.
32. Margaret Davenport and friends at Chadron State College, Nebraska, circa 1930.
33. Trips to Massachusetts and Connecticut by Margaret and Willard Davenport "out East" to visit Rowland (Willard's brother) and Lillian Davenport. Also, trip to Western National Parks. Circa 1933.

Box 11
Folder

1. Margaret Davenport:High School Graduation
2. Margaret Davenport:Retirement/ Jerusalem trip
3. John B. Davenport:Cub Scouts
4. Large Portraits:
   -Willard E. Davenport, acting Lieutenant Colonel in WWII, circa 1944
   - Margaret Davenport, circa 1944 "
   -John B. Davenport - baby picture circa 1951
   -Frances Burnham Hunt - Margaret's sister
   -Robert Hunt - "Uncle Bob", husband of Frances Burnham Hunt "
   -Willard E. and Margaret Davenport with James Burnham Davenport (born and died 1950) - only known picture of James - 2 photos

Box 12
Folder

1. Trips by:
   a. Willard, Margaret, and John Davenport to Oregon, circa 1953.
   b. Willard and Margaret Davenport to Oregon, circa 1946 to visit Rowland (brother of Willard) and Lillian Davenport and Sarah Davenport (mother).
   c. Scenes of Salinas, Kansas, where Willard Davenport was a professor (Kansas Wesleyan) in the 1930s.
2. Margaret Davenport and pictures of family, friends, cemeteries, old houses, and trips.

Box 13
Folder
Envelopes of photographs

1. Willard and Margaret Davenport, Chicago, 1941 - 1943.
2. Acting Lieutenant Colonel Willard E. Davenport during WWII in Shrivenham, England, Bianity, France, and Bremerhaven, Germany, from 1944 - 1946.
3. Willard and Margaret Davenport - trip to Manitoba, circa 1950 (probably).
4. Miscellaneous portraits of Willard E. Davenport, Margaret B. Davenport, John Davenport, and Kelty (Scottish Terrier), circa 1938 - 1950.
5. Baby and childhood pictures of John Davenport, circa 1950s.
6. Childhood parties of John Davenport, circa 1950s.
7. Pictures from 1950s:
   - F. Y. St. Clair (Chairman of English department at the University of North Dakota), his wife, Elma, and their sons John, Richard, and Jeffrey
   - Visit to Pine Lake, Minnesota
8. Trips to visit Rowland (Willard's brother) and Lillian Davenport, and their children Dick Davenport and Patty McCarley. Also visited Sarah Davenport, Willard and Rowland's mother. Oregon, circa 1948 - 1960s.
9. University of North Dakota, 1941 - 1943 and 1947 - 1963.
10. Trips to Bayard, Nebraska, to visit Sumner and Jesse Burnham (Margaret Davenport's parents) and Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to visit Frances (Margaret's sister) and Robert Hunt.

SEPARATIONS RECORD

Thirty-eight photographs were separated and placed in the Orin G. Libby Photograph Collection.

Six reels of microfilm were separated and placed in the microfilm cabinets. These reels of microfilm were all references used by John Davenport in writing his thesis. The first four reels are sermons given by John Davenport in the 17th century in New England. The fifth reel is notes written by H. Dunster. The sixth reel is a dissertation written by Douglas H. Shepard.

Reel 1: Davenport, John"The Witches of Huntington, Their Examinations and Confessions"1646
Reel 2: Davenport, John"Response in Examinations for Degree"1625
Reel 3: Davenport, John"Reply to Seven Propositions"1662
Reel 4: Davenport, John"MS Sermons Preached at New Haven"
Reel 5: Dunster, H. "Dunster Notebook"
Reel 6: Shepard, Douglas H."The Wolcott Shorthand Notebook Transcribed"1957

Three audio cassette tapes were separated and added to the Audio Tape Collection. These tapes record verbal reminiscences by Margaret Davenport regarding Burnham family history and her early memories about growing up in Nebraska.

#2047: Burnham Family History 1 of 3
#2048: Burnham Family History 2 of 3
#2049: Burnham Family History 3 of 3

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