DAVENPORT  , a

city and the county seat of Scott county, Iowa, U.S.A., on the Mississippi river, opposite Rock Island, Illinois, with which it is connected by two fine bridges and by a ferry . It is the third largest city in the state . Pop . (1890) 26,872; (1900) 35,254, including 8479 foreign-born (6111 German), and 19,230 of foreign parentage (13,294 German); (1905, state census) 39,797; (1910) 43,028 . Davenport is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Iowa & Illinois (interurban), and the Davenport, Rock Island & North Western railways; opposite the city is the western terminus of the Illinois and Mississippi, or Hennepin, Canal (which connects the Mississippi and Illinois rivers) . Davenport lies on the slope of a bluff affording extensive views of landscape and river scenery . In the city are an excellent public library, an Academy of Sciences, several turn-halls and other German social organizations, the Iowa soldiers' orphans' home, Brown business college, and several minor Roman Catholic institutions . Davenport is an episcopal see of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Episcopal churches . The city has a large commerce,and trade by water and rail in coal and grain, which are produced in the vicinity, is of special importance . With Rock Island and Moline it forms one great commercial unit . Among Davenport's manufactures are the products of foundries and machine shops, and of flouring, grist and planing mills; glucose syrup and products; locomotives, steel cars and car parts, washing machines, waggons, carriages, agricultural implements, buttons, macaroni, crackers and brooms . The value of the total factory product for 1905 was $13,695,978, an increase of 38'7% over that of 'goo .

Davenport was founded in 1835, under the leadership of

Colonel George Davenport; it was incorporated as a town in 1838, and was chartered as a city in 1851 .