Top Row	Councilmember	William Finney
	Councilmember	Pat Dillon
	Councilmember	Fred Zuehlke
Second Row	Councilmember	A.W. Turner
	Treasurer	A. Hoople
	Mayor	Adam Knox
	Police, Judge	O.B. Parks
Bottom Row	Attorney	H. Martin
	Councilmember	C.G. Snyder
	Marshall	L.A. Kennedy

        

Surrounded by picturesque wheat fields the community of Davenport dates back to about 1880, when a man named Aloysius Harker took up the land where Davenport is now located to build a town.  He built a combination saloon, store and post office near the springs and was first postmaster of what was then called Cottonwood Springs.  The next year, in July 1881, John H. Nicholls and his wife Emma newly married decide to make Cottonwood Springs their home.  Then in 1882, John C. Davenport started a rival town on higher ground to the south located on Main Street and called it Davenport.   The town of Davenport thrived, but less than a year a fire destroyed every building in town but the saloon.  The saloon keeper moved back down to Cottonwood Springs taking the name of Davenport with him, and Davenport it remained.