The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-16
WAS 4 PROMINENT DIYlNE.

HIS Eather was LeHuihS new maven
Citizen and Manufacturer for Many
Years, Residing on Hillhouse Avenue
The Mallory, Wheeler Co. Manufac-
| tory Closed Yesterday.
| In accordance with notices posted up
| Tuesday at the Mallory, Wheeler & Co.
manufactory. this large New Haven
| factory was closed all day yesterday on
| account of the funeral of Rev. DR..
James Radcliffe Davenport, which took
| place yesterday morning at the Church
of the TRANSPORTATION New Yorw city.
| The deceased was director and
| large owner in Mallory, Wheeler g. Co.
He was son of the late Mr. Daven-
| port, who resided on Hillhouse avenue,
this city, dying about thirty years ago,
and who was the senior partner of Da-
| venport & Mallory, who were the pred
ecessors of the present corporation Of
| Mallory, Wheeler & Co.
Bishop Potter of New York, who was
| expected at the funeral yesterday,
wrote expressing his inability to at
| tend and delegated Archdeacon Tiffany
to act as his representative, The SER
vices were read by the Rev. DR.. George
| H. Houghton, rector of the church.
| Others present besides Archdeacon Tiff
fany, all of whom took part in the fun
eral ceremony were the Rev. DR.. Nor
| gan Dix, the Rev. DIR. William G. Far
rington, the Rev. Dr. Vibbert, the Rev.
r. II. Nichol the Rev. Joseph H Smith
| and the Rev. J. C. Stewart. There
were no pallbearers. The burial was
| in the family plot in Greenwood ceme-
| terry
| The New York Tribune had the fol-
| lowing obituary:
The Rev. DIR. James Radcliffe Daven-
| port, long we'll known as prominent
| Protestant Episcopal clergyman, died
| from pneumonia yesterday morning,
after a weeks illness, at his home, No.
| 212 East Sixteenth street
He was born in Stamford. Conn, and
was a direct descendant of the Rev.
| DR.. John Davenport, rector of st. Ste
phen's church, London, England, who
| landed In Boston in 1887 and with The
| ophilus Eaton and one hundred others
year later settled on the site of what
| afterward became that of the city of
| New Haven, Conn. After preliminary
| schooling he attended Columbia col
| lege Cor one year, and then went to
| Yale, from which he was graduated in
! the class of 1880. He was a tutor in
| Yale for two years. after which he en-
| tered the ministry. His honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Divinity was be-
slowed upon him in later years by CO.
lumbia college.
He began his clerical career in Rye,
N. Y, in 1886 He was next for ten
years in Albany, as the rector Of Grace
church, which he enlarged from mis-
sion to a handsome church In 1857 he
| went to Annapolis, Md, as the rector
of St. AIMS church, where he remained
until 1865. About two months after he
became it's rector the church was de-
stroyed by fire, but he soon succeeded
In having a larger and finer building
erected. He was an ardent supporter
of the federal government during the
Rebellion, under exceedingly trying cir
cumstances, as many of his congrega-
tion were in full sympathy with seces-
sion
After travelling in Europe for about
three years with his wife for her
health, he returned in 1867 and went to
live at No. 212 East Sixteenth street
which was thereafter his home con-
tinuously till he died. His next cleri-
cal labor was in assisting the Rev. Dr.
Rowland, rector of the Church of the
Heavenly Rest in Forty-fifth street.
near Fifth avenue. After another long
visit to Europe with his wife for the
benefit of her health, he became rector
of st. Mary's church, Mott Haven,
where he remained for five years, dur
ing which the congregation was doubled
in membership and the church extern
sively improved and beautifed. He
was also rector of the Church of the
Holy Innocents, uptown, in this city.
for three years, and was an assistant
at ST. Paufs church He was an elo>
quent preacher and an enthusiastic
worker, and much of the time in his
declining years was passed in giving
ministerial assistance in various
churches. During the last ten years
he had not been active and had rarely
preached. He was an accomplished
linguist and an ardent student, his
studies being continued until he was
Frustrated by his fatal Illness. AT the
time of his death he was and had been
for four years, member of the exam
ining board of the General Theological
seminary. He was also secretary of
the Clergymen's Retiring Fund society,
and a member of the Glorious and the
Churchmen's association. In 1886, Miss
M. W. Newell of Boston became his
wife They had two daughters and
two sons. He is survived by his widow,
two daughters and one son. One of the
daughters is unmarried and the other
is the wife of H. e. Alexander of New
Brighton, Staten Island. His surviving
son is Russell Davenport, vice presi-
dent Of the Bethlehem Iron company.
CTYIE SERVICE Reform.