Albert Emmett Kent

Albert Emmett Kent

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Albert Emmet Kent, B.A. 1913
Born: December 6, 1890, in Chicago, Illinois
Died: September 2, 1933, in Ross, California

Father: William Kent (BA. 1887)
Mother: Elizabeth Sherman Kent (Thacher)

Yale relatives include: Roger Sherman (honorary M.A. 1768) (great-great-grandfather); Roger Sherman (B.A. 1787) (great-grandfather); Thomas Anthony Thacher (BA. 1835) (grandfather), Oliver Sherman (B.A. 1795), Seth Perkins Staples (B.A. 1797), Job Staples (BA. 1808), and Sophos Staples (BA. 1809) (great-great-uncles); Frederick Roger Sherman (B.A. 1836), George Sherman (BA 1839), and Rev. George Thacher (B.A. 1840) (great-uncles); James Kingsley Thacher, '68, Thomas Thacher, '71, Edward Stanley Thacher, '72, Alfred Beaumont Thacher, '74, John S Thacher, '77, Sherman Day Thacher, '83, and Willam Larned Thacher, '87 (uncles); and Dr. Henry Clarke Thacher, '02, Thomas Day Thacher, '04, Thomas Anthony Thacher, '08, George B. Thacher, '25, Anson S. Thacher and John Seymour Thacher, both '27, and Sherman Day Thacher, '36 (cousins).

Thacher School on the Water Polo Team; president of Yale Thacher Club; member Zeta Psi and Kappa Beta Phi.

Had been engaged in livestock and land business since 1913; with Golconda (Nevada) Cattle Company 1913-18 (president 1917-18); president of A.E. Kent & Company, Inc., of Golconda since 1918; vice president of Kent & Burke Company of Genoa, Nebraska, since 1926; had made his home at Kentfield, California, since 1929; member of Kentfield Chamber of Commerce since 1930; president of Ross Valley Players since 1932.

Unmarried

Death due to appendicitis and peritonitis. Survived by mother, four brothers, Thomas Thacher Kent, '15, William Kent, Jr., '17, Sherman Kent, '26, and Roger Kent, '28, and two sisters, Elizabeth K. Arnold, wife of G. Stanleigh Arnold, '03, and Adaline Kent Howard (BA. Vassar 1923), wife of Robert Boardman Howard, of San Francisco.

Brother: Thomas Thacher Kent
Brother: William Kent, Jr.
Brother: Sherman Kent
Brother: Roger Kent
Sister: Elizabeth Arnold (Kent), wife of G. Stanleigh Arnold
Sister: Adaline Kent Howard wife of Robert Boardman Howard