Charles H. Kent

CHARLES H. KENT, merchant, Kent, was born in Ravenna, this county, August 12, 1818, son of Zenas and Pamelia (Lewis) Kent. He was reared in Ravenna until eighteen years of age, when he received a common school education, after which he attended the Canandaigua Academy, at Canandaigua, N. Y., for two years. In 1839 he embarked in mercantile business at Franklin Mills (now Kent), with Clapp & Spellman, under firm name of Clapp, Spellman & Kent . In 1841 the firm divided up their stock, and our subject succeeded to the business. In 1845 Mr. Kent and his brother Marvin were associated in business in Franklin, at the same time they purchased the goods of their father, Zenas Kent, at Ravenna, and continued the business there. In 1850 Mr. Kent, in connection with two others, built a factory for the manufacture of window glass, with which he was identified for several years. Previous to 1860 he was connected in business with Kent, Wells & Co., and Kent, Grinnell & Co. In 1860 he embarked in dry goods business, in which he has been engaged to the present time. Mr. Kent was married, January 14, 1841, to Mary E., daughter of Rev. Stephen W. Burrett, of Franklin, by whom he has one child—Charles B. Mr. Kent is the oldest established merchant in Kent, and one of its representative business men. In politics he is a Republican. He has served as Mayor of Kent for four years.

Bibliographic information:

• Title History of Portage County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc ...
• Editors Robert C. Brown, J. E. Norris
• Contributor Warner, Beers & Co. (Chicago, Ill.)
• Publisher Warner, Beers & Company, 1885
• Original from Indiana University
• Digitized Jun 1, 2009
• Length 911 pages
• Page 690
• https://books.google.com/books?id=RVDWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA690&lpg=PA690&d...

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CHILDREN OF ZENAS AND PAMELIA 46 (LEWIS) KENT.

114. i. Harriett, was born June 6, 1812, and died January 4, 1887. She married, September 1, 1831, Charles Clapp.

115. ii. Henry A., was born October ar, 1814. He has been twice married. First, to Sarah M. Wells, June 2, 1845; and second, to Mrs. Amelia C. Russell, of Middletown, Conn., in June, 1866. He is a man of exceptional business ability, was for years a merchant in New York, and has acquired a large fortune. He resides in Brooklyn, N. Y.

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.

117. iv. Charles H., was born August 12, 1818, and died February 28, 1887. He married, January 14, 1841, Mary E. Burritt.

118. v. Louisa, was born September 19, 1820, and died in infancy.

119. vi. Edward, was born August 2, 1823. He married, October 24, 1849, Artimesia Streator, He was formerly a merchant in New York, and now lives near Brooklyn, N. Y.

120. vii. Eliza A., was born May 18, 1825, and died July 4, 1864. She married, March 4, 1845, John Poag, who was a merchant in New York, and at one time a partner in business with Henry A. Kent.

121. viii. George L., was bom May 13, 1827, and died at New York City, December 22, 1884. He married, first, June 1, 1852, Matilda Rockwell. He married, second, Virginia G. Tryon, June 6, 1866. He also was for several years a merchant in New York.

122. ix. Frances E., was born November 19, 1830. She married, August 27, 1851, George W. Wells. She now resides at Arlington, Colorado.

123. x. Emily, was born August 13, 1832. She married, September 3, 1872, Robert B. Dennis, and resides at Cleveland, Ohio.

124. xi. Amelia, was bom October 23, 1834. She died in infancy.

125. xii. Amelia L., was born September 26, 1837. She married, October 4, 1863, Joseph W. Shively, and resides at Washington, D. C.

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
• Pages 19 - 26, and 41
• https://books.google.com/books?id=KOswAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=...

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CHARLES H.,8 son of Zenas,7 mar. Jan. 14, 1841, Mary E. Burritt. He built the window-glass works at Kent. For four years he was Mayor of Kent, O. He d. Feb. 28, 1887.

He had son:

1. Charles Burritt,9 who mar. July 12, 1871, Carrie M. Pratt, by whom he had chil. :

• 1. Paul,10 b. Oct. 12, 1873.
• 2. Bessie, b. Sept. 8, 1875.

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 219
• Identifier-access http://www.archive.org/details/genealogiesdiff00briggoog