Homer Calvin Davenport was a cartoonist from Silverton, Oregon, who worked for W.R. Hearst around the turn of the 20th century. He published two book collections with his cartoons in 1898 and 1900, as well as two non-fiction works, including his autobiography ‘The Country Boy’ (1910). He created mainly single panel cartoons, but also drew some comic strips.

Homer Calvin Davenport was born in 1867 in the Waldo Hills region south of Silverton, where he grew up. Inspired by Thomas Nast, he headed for San Francisco, where he began his association with the Hearst newspapers. He later became a political cartoonist for the New York Evening Journal in New York. His main focus was the power of the sugar, tobacco and oil trusts.

Davenport’s work was praised by Theodore Roosevelt, who personally pulled strings to allow Homer Davenport to travel across the world to pursue his interest in Arabian Horses. He was one of the first American breeders of Arabian horses. Homer Calvin Davenport died from pneumonia in 1912, several weeks after drawing a cartoon about the sinking of the Titanic.