Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — FANNY DAVENPORT DEAD. [ARTICLE]

FANNY DAVENPORT DEAD.

Great Emotional Actress Falls a Victim to Heart Disease. Fanny Davenport, the great emotional actress, died at her summer home, Melbourne hall, at Duxbury, Mass., of enlargement of the heart. Miss Davenport became seriously ill while filling an engagement in Chicago last spring and the nervous prostration which followed aggravated an existing heart affection of long standing. She had been sinking steadily since last July. Fanny Davenport came from good old theatrical stock. Her father was Ecrtvnrd Loomis Davenport, who begat; his dtfreer pn the stage in Boston. Her. the daughter of Frederick Vining*. manager of the Haymarket Theater, London, and herself a favorite actress in both England and America. Fanny wasborrt in London April 10,1850. She early (showed signs of talent, which later charn|?d j;wo continents. At the nge of 6 sue spoke her first lines on the stage in the Chambers Street Theater in New York. She first attained prominence as the leading lady of Daly’S Fifth Avenue Theater, and inl 1873 she began her career as a star, which was constantly marked with triumphs.