Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

To ensure that all aspects of the building's performance in strong winds will be acceptable, a detailed wind tunnel study was carried out by Professor Alan Davenport at the BLWT at the UWO.

Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.

Davenport has a declining crime rate and a low rate of unemployment, and was ranked as the most affordable metropolitan area in 2010 by Forbes.

Antoine LeClaire was the primary founder of Davenport

Lieutenant Zebulon Pike was the first official United States representative to explore the Upper Mississippi River which runs through the newly acquired land and present-day Davenport.

Davenport was again the victor by only two votes.

The Claim House ( Davenport, Iowa ) | Claim House was constructed by George L. Davenport, son of Colonel George Davenport, in 1832 or 1833 and is believed to be the oldest structure in the city.

The Davenport City Hall was built in 1895 for the meager price of $ 100, 000 ($ in dollars ).

The Interstate highway network was brought to Davenport in 1956.

The picture was taken from the Davenport Skybridge | Skybridge.

The highest temperature recorded in Davenport was on July 18, 2006.

Lindsay Park, in The Village of East Davenport, was used as parade grounds for Civil War soldiers from Camp McClellan.

The Davenport City Hall was built in 1895 at the price of $ 100, 000.

The establishment of Davenport as a political and government unit came in 1839, three years after the city was settled.

Parker was a resident of Davenport and one of six trustees elected to govern the city with Rodolphus Bennet being the first mayor.

* 1971, Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society established in Davenport, Iowa ; founded annual jazz festival and scholarship

Adjacent stations were established at Davenport — now Kellond, Oklahoma — to the north, and Hamden, Oklahoma to the south.

With Rock Island and Davenport having established Three-I teams in 1901, Moline gained a franchise in 1914.

In addition, the DNA evidence has established his descent from Ormus de Davenport, of Cheshire, and also his relationship to the present day Lord Bromley Davenport.

The bone porcelains, especially those of Spode, Minton, Davenport and Coalport, eventually established the standards for soft-paste porcelain which were later ( after 1800 ) maintained widely.

* February 5 – The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, a predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, is established in Iowa to build a railroad between Davenport and Council Bluffs.

During the American Civil War from 1861-1865 the Union Army established a headquarters in Davenport.

On May 8, 1881 Pope Leo XIII established the Diocese of Davenport.

In 1902 Our Lady of Lourdes was established in Gilbert, present day Bettendorf, and in 1909 St. Paul the Apostle was founded in Davenport.

In recent years, the college has established special links with Carlow University, Pittsburgh and with St. Ambrose University, in Davenport, Iowa.

" Grinnell was also involved in railway building and was instrumental in the move of Grinnell College, known at the time as Iowa College, from Davenport to the newly established town of Grinnell.

von Maur, who came from Austria, established the Boston Store ( later renamed Harned & Von Maur ) in downtown Davenport in 1887.

* Davenport, Thomas H. and Harris, Jeanne G. Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning ( 2007 ) Harvard Business School Press.

Located approximately half way between Chicago and Des Moines, Davenport is on the border of Iowa and Illinois.

On August 27, 1805, Pike camped on the present day site of Davenport.

Picture of Davenport in 1865 ; on the right is the Iowa ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Iowa, which appears in the Seal of Iowa.

By 1932 thousands of Davenport residents were on public relief due to the Great Depression.

Davenport is located on the banks of the Mississippi River and has a maximum depth of around and is wide where the Centennial Bridge crosses it.

Severe thunderstorms on June 16, 1990, created heavy flash flooding in Bettendorf and Davenport that killed four people.

There Thomas collaborated with Davenport on the satire The Death of the King's Canary, though due to fears of libel the work was not published until 1976.

Bix Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, the son of Bismark Herman and Agatha Jane ( Hilton ) Beiderbecke.

Beiderbecke's childhood home at Leon Bismark Beiderbecke House | 1934 Grand Avenue in Davenport, Iowa, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On April 22, 1921, a month after he turned 18, Beiderbecke was arrested by two Davenport police officers on a charge brought by the father of a young girl.

He returned to Davenport briefly in the summer of 1922, then moved to Chicago to join the Cascades Band, working that summer on Lake Michigan excursion boats.

In 1971, on the 40th anniversary of Beiderbecke's death, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival was founded in Davenport, Iowa, to honor the musician.

* " Toddlin ' Blues " / " Davenport Blues ", recorded on January 26, 1925, in Richmond, Indiana, and released as Gennett 5654

The other main players of the show are Cooter Davenport, who in very early episodes was seen to be a wild, unshaven rebel, often breaking or treading on the edge of the law, before settling down and becoming much more laid-back, and who owns the local garage and is the Duke family's best friend ( he is often referred to as an " honorary Duke "), and Enos Strate, an honest but naive young Deputy who often finds his morals conflicted as he is reluctantly forced to take part in Hogg and Rosco's crooked schemes.

DocBook began in 1991 in discussion groups on Usenet and evenually became a joint project of HAL Computer Systems and O ' Reilly & Associates and eventually spawned its own maintenance organization ( the Davenport Group ) before moving in 1998 to the SGML Open consortium, which subsequently became OASIS.

Ranked ninth, Davenport defeated tenth ranked Gabriela Sabatini, before losing to third ranked Conchita Martínez, who went on to win the tournament.

On clay, Davenport won the tournament in Strasbourg on her first attempt, defeating Kimiko Date in the final.

At the year-end Chase Championships, Davenport lost to Monica Seles, after holding seven match points, her third loss to Seles, having a match point opportunity on all three occasions.

In that match, Davenport sustained a serious back injury while leading 4 – 2 ( 40 – 15 ) in the final set, although she acknowledged after the match that the injury did not cause her defeat and that Williams was the superior mentally strong player on the day.