George W. Wells

Frances Kent married George W. Wells on August 27, 1851 in Ravenna and then moved to Kent. Wells was a glassmaker who, along with Marvin and Charles Kent, started Kent, Wells & Co. glassworks, an early industry in our town. This house was built in 1858 under the supervision of her father, Zenas Kent, who had been a carpenter and joiner, among his many professions. When this engraving was made, the home belonged to Civil War veteran Dr. Aaron M. Sherman, who bought the house in 1868 from Miner Andrews, who bought the house from Dr. Lucius Crittenden in 1867, who bought the house from the Wells’s when they moved to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, which, according to obituaries of both Mr. and Mrs. Wells ,
was in 1863. He maintained his business in a building next door to this home. In the obituary for Helen Parkhill, Frances’s daughter, it says “She was the niece of the late Marvin Kent, being the daughter of his sister. Her father was prominent in the old glass works here. She was born near the Old Sherman residence here on S. Water Street.” The Wells house had not yet been built at this time, since Helen was the eldest daughter of this couple, born in 1852.

Bibliographic information:

• A History of the Wells-Sherman House
• By Sally Burnell
• Page 2
• http://www.kwsh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/AHistoryoftheWells-S...