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Sharon was a charter member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Davenport and the Loras Council of the Knights of Columbus. President Woodrow Wilson appointed him the Davenport postmaster in 1913 and he served in that capacity for almost nine years. Sharon died on July 10, 1949, and he is buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Davenport.
Davenport declined an offer from the Cleveland Browns as they held Sunday sporting events that contradicted his Christian commitment to observing the Lord's Day. [3] He instead played professionally with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Western Interprovincial Football Union—a forerunner of the Canadian Football League (CFL)—in 1956 and 1957.
The first attempt to established a crematorium in Davenport occurred in 1880, four years after the first crematorium opened in the United States. [2] There was little to show for this effort until 1885 when the Northwestern Cremation Society, later renamed the Davenport Cremation Society, was established.
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Gordon Lynn Strate (May 28, 1935 – September 5, 2012) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 61 games in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings as a defenceman between 1957 and 1959. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1955 to 1962, was spent in the minor leagues.
He first worked a series of odd jobs, but in 1919, joined Lee Schaefer's Athletic Show as a professional wrestler under the name of "Young Strangler Lewis" after learning the sport at a YMCA in Endicott, New York. [4] Strates, along with partners Nick Bozinis and W.L. Platt, would renovate the show and call it Southern Tier Shows in 1922.
Davenport was a member of the Southern Jaguars football team in college, and immediately departed the 1968 Olympics after winning the gold to join the team for the final games. [3] He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints as a wide receiver in the sixth round (138th overall) of the 1969 NFL/AFL draft , but a misunderstanding about his college ...
Alarming photos show at least one-fourth of the building’s units destroyed in Davenport, Iowa