George Davenport
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Colonel George Davenport, born George William King, was a 19th-century English-American sailor, frontiersman, fur trader, merchant, postmaster, US Army soldier, Indian agent, and city planner. A prominent and well-known settler in the Iowa Territory, he was one of the earliest settlers in Rock Island. He spent much of his life involved in the early settlement of the Mississippi Valley and the "Quad Cities". The present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after him.
Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, Illinois, in 1838, the year that George Davenport was appointed a United States Indian Agent, from a painting by Octave Blair
George Davenport Monument on the Scott County Courthouse grounds in Davenport, Iowa
The October 1845 hangings of Granville Young and John and Aaron Long, Banditti murderers of Colonel George Davenport, from the 1850 book The Banditti of the Prairies, Or, The Murderer's Doom!!: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley by Edward Bonney, who is standing to the right of the gallows, wearing a top hat and black suit.
Indian agent
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In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with American Indian tribes on behalf of the government.
Bust of Benjamin Hawkins