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      • He was elected mayor of the town of Rock Island for seven continuous terms during the Civil War (1861 – 1866) as a Democrat. He was one of the organizers of the Merchants' State bank in Davenport as well as the Peoples' National Bank in Rock Island, of which he was a board member and president at the time of his death.
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  2. Harry Davenport was one of the best-known and busiest "old men" in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. He started his film career at the age of 47, debuting in the 1913 silent short film Kenton's Heir. The next year, he starred in Fogg's Millions co-starring Rose Tapley.

  3. He is best known for playing Dr. Meade in the Civil War epic 'Gone with the Wind,' 1939's Academy Award winner for Best Picture and the highest-grossing film of the Golden Age of American...

  4. Harry Davenport. Actor: Gone with the Wind. Character fame on film came quite late for long-time stage actor Harry Davenport at age 70, but he made up for lost time in very quick fashion with well over a hundred film roles registered from the advent of sound to the time of his death in 1949.

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  5. Sep 4, 2012 · By August 29, 1862, as the deadline for volunteering approached, both the Daily Democrat and News and the Davenport Daily Gazette ran the names of the men who were subject to the draft from Davenport and Scott County. The names were alphabetized and broken down into wards and outer townships.

  6. He is best known for playing Dr. Meade in the Civil War epic "Gone with the Wind," 1939's Academy Award winner for Best Picture and the highest-grossing film of the Golden Age of American movies. During the making of "Gone with the Wind," the c...

  7. Mar 9, 2012 · On August 13, 1896 the Daily Democrat and Davenport Daily Times ran the obituary for Captain Harry B. Doolittle. The Civil War veteran had died after a fall at his residence at the Old Soldiers’ Home in Marshalltown, Iowa.

  8. Mini Bio. Character fame on film came quite late for long-time stage actor Harry Davenport at age 70, but he made up for lost time in very quick fashion with well over a hundred film roles registered from the advent of sound to the time of his death in 1949.

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