George Davenport

Colonel George Davenport, born George William Davenport (1783 – July 4, 1845), was a 19th-century English-American sailor, frontiersman, fur trader, 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 and 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.