Charles Burritt 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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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