Henry Lewis Kent

MARVIN 8 son of Zenas,7 Zenas,6 Daniel,5 mar. Dec. 24, 1840, Maria (b. Franklin, now Kent, O., Aug. 25, 1821), dau. of Col. Wm. Stewart. Marvin Kent was brought up in the mercantile business in his father's store, and continued in that business for many years on his own account. Subsequently he became extensively engaged in the tanning and currying business and in the manufacture of window glass, also in the manufacture of flour. At one time he was manager of a tannery in a building erected by his father and Capt. John Brown of Harper's Ferry notoriety. His chief undertaking and the crowning effort of bis life was the inception, projection, and inauguration of the Atlantic & Great Western R.R., of which organization he was President from July 8, 1851, to Sept. 30, 1864, excepting about three years. After being changed to the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad it was leased to and finally purchased by the Erie Railroad Company. In 1865 he became President of the Kent National Bank, which position he still occupies (1897). In 1875 he was elected State Senator; and served two years, declining a renomination.

Marvin and Maria Stewart Kent had two sons, viz. :

I. Henry Lewis,9 b. at Kent Feb. 14, 1843 ; d. N.Y. City Apl. 21, 1873. Before reaching legal age he served as Assistant Paymaster of the Atlantic & Great Western R.R. He was afterwards engaged in the mercantile business and became Vice-President of the Kent National Bank. He mar. Josephine A. Collins of Akron, O., Oct. 12, 1864, who d. Springfield, Mass., Oct. 9, 1896, and by whom he had two dau. :

• 1. Grace Emily, who mar. Charles E. Curtiss, and has 2 chil. : Marvin Kent, b. Oct. 10, 1890, and Josephine Collins, b. June, 1892.
• 2. Ella Southwick, who mar. John Reed, and has one child, Eleanor S., b. June, 1895.

II. William Stewart,9 b. Ravenna Aug. 24, 1847 ; mar. Oct. 19, 1865, Kittie M. North, who d. May 28, 1886. He was a merchant, and for many years Vice-Pres. Kent Nat. Bank. No living children.

Bibliographic information:

• Genealogies of the Different Families Bearing the Name of Kent in the United States Together ...
• by Lloyd Vernon Briggs
• Published 1898
• Publisher Rockwell & Churchill press
• Year 1898
• Pages 387
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• Language English
• Digitizing sponsor Google
• Book from the collections of Harvard University
• Collection americana
• Page 218
• Identifier-access http://www.archive.org/details/genealogiesdiff00briggoog

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116. iii. Marvin, was born September 21, 1816. He married, December 24, 1840, Maria Stewart. He resides at Kent, Ohio, where he is interested in large business enterprises. He was one of the original projectors of the Atlantic and Great Western railroad (now the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad), and it was largely owing to his boldness, and his indomitable energy, that the road was built. He now enjoys a large fortune as the result of his life of active labor. His children are as follows:

1. Henry L., was born February 14, 1843. He married, October 12, 1864, Josephine A. Collins. Henry L. Kent has two daughters:

1. Grace Emily, who was born October 28, 1865, and married, October 9, 1889, Charles E. Curtis. They have one child, a great-grandson of Marvin Kent, named Marvin Kent Curtis, who was born October 10, 1890.

2. Ella Southwick, who was born September 7, 1867, and is unmarried.

2. William Stewart, was born August 24, 1847. He married, October 19, 1875, Kittie M. North, who died May 28, 1886, leaving no children.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Book VXIII. of the Genealogy of the Lewis Family
• Author Simeon Dunham Lewis
• Publisher C.W. Moulton, 1891
• Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized Apr 16, 2007
• Length 66 pages
• Page 41
• https://books.google.com/books?id=KOswAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=...

Death date: https://books.google.com/books?id=nyAWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA629&lpg=PA629&d...