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 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 established on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire, and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport who was stationed at Fort Armstrong during the war.

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.

* Stockport Lacrosse Club is founded at Cale Green Cricket Club Davenport, Greater Manchester where they still play to this day.

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.

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

Along with Edward L. Thorndike, Yerkes was a member and Chairman of the Committee on Inheritance of Mental Traits, part of the Eugenics Record Office, which was founded by Charles Benedict Davenport, a former teacher of Yerkes at Harvard.

The European-American city of Muscatine began as a trading post founded by representatives of Colonel George Davenport in 1833.

Davenport was founded in 1882.

The Massillon Iron Bridge Company was founded by Joseph Davenport in 1869 after moving to Massillon from Boston to work at the C. M. Russell & Company.

DT's were first published by Davenport on the rec. sports. baseball Usenet site in 1995, before Baseball Prospectus was founded.

In 1906, together with Irving Fisher and Charles Davenport, Kellogg founded the Race Betterment Foundation, which became a major center of the new eugenics movement in America.

Stockport Grammar School ( mixed, independent, founded 1485 ) lies next to Davenport Park on Buxton Road, whilst immediately across the road is the local authority comprehensive, Stockport School.

In response Grant founded the Galton Society with American eugenicist and biologist Charles B. Davenport in 1918 as an alternative to Boas.

Siddeley Autocars, of Coventry, was founded by John Davenport Siddeley ( 1866 – 1953 ) in 1902.

The predecessor to the modern Davenport University was founded in 1866 by Carl G. Swensburg, a Union Army veteran who returned to Michigan from the Civil War.

The college was named for John Davenport, who founded Yale's home city of New Haven, Connecticut.

The Eugenics Record Office ( ERO ) was founded at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, by Davenport with initial support from Mary Williamson Averell ( Mrs. E. H. Harriman ) and John Harvey Kellogg, and later by the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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

Marycrest was founded as a Catholic women's college in 1939 by the Congregation of the Humility of Mary ( CHM ) at the request of the Bishop of Davenport.

In 1898, Davenport became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he founded the Eugenics Record Office in 1910.

TWISTED America Records is an American record label founded by Rob Di Stefano and Mark Davenport in 1996 ( see 1996 in music ).

In 1906, together with Irving Fisher and Charles Davenport, Kellogg founded the Race Betterment Foundation, which became a major center of the new eugenics movement in America.

The museum has its roots in the Davenport Art Association, which was founded before February 23, 1878, and was re-located on November 15, 1889, to the Bianca Wheeler art studio.

assumed control of the school that his father had founded in Davenport, Iowa.

* 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.

* " 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.