Holt County, MO Biography
W. W. DAVENPORT, now editor of the Holt County Sentinel, has
been intimately identified with the Republican newspaper press
of Missouri. He was born at Columbia, Boone Co., Mo. At an early
age he became connected with the Columbia Statesman, then as now
edited by Col. William F. SWITZLER. He subsequently became editor
of the North Missouri Messenger, published at Mexico, Mo., and
was connected with that paper until 1867. In 1868, he purchased
the St. Charles Cosmos of which he was editor and proprietor for
four or five years. Residing in St. Charles until June, 1876,
he then became managing editor of the St. Joseph Herald. He sold
his interest in that journal in Nov. of the same year to take
charge of the Holt County Sentinel. He is an able and vigorous
writer, a thorough and experienced journalist, and an earnest
Republican. The political sentiments of the Sentinel accord with
those of a majority of the people of Holt Co., but it is also
a welcome visitor to every family, whatever their politics, interested
in matters concerning the county. Its local department is unsurpassed,
its editorial columns vigorous and original, while it warmly advocates
every project calculated to forward the growth and development
of this part of the state.