Percy Kent

PERCY KENT

• Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1859.
• Son of George Lewis and Matilda (Rockwell) Kent.
• Prepared at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
• Married: Frances Frost, July 20, 1899.
• Children:
• Percy Rockwell, born Aug. 15, 1900.
• Virginia Tryon, born Feb. 23, 1905.
• Occupation: Merchant.
• Address: 257 West 86th St., New York, N. Y.

SPENT the year after graduation in foreign travel, and, returning to New York, entered the employ of C. R. Hickox & Co., commission grain merchants. In 1884 entered upon the business of manufacturing bags and importing jute goods, in which business I am still engaged.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Fortieth Anniversary Report
• Author Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1880
• Published 1920
• Original from Harvard University
• Digitized Jun 3, 2008
• Length 285 pages
• Page 123
• https://books.google.com/books?id=krcnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&d...

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GEORGE LEWIS,8 son of Zenas,7 Zenas,6 Daniel,5 grad. Union Coll. 1849, and became a wholesale merchant N.Y. City. He mar. 1st, June 1, 1852, Matilda D. Rockwell, b. June, 1832 ; d. 1864. He mar. 2d, June 6, 1866, Virginia G. Tyron (or Tryon), and d. Dec. 22, 1884.

Children of Geo. L. and Matilda D. Rockwell Kent:

I. George Rockwell,9 b. July 2, 1853; mar. July 18, 1881, Sarah H. Banker, and had children :

• 1. Rockwell,10 b. June 21, 1882.
• 2. Douglass,10 b. Feb. 6, 1884.
• 3. Doratha, b. Mch. 21, 1888.

He d. Sept. 26, 1887, aged 34.

II. Alice, b. July 28, 1855 ; mar. Apl. 27, 1881, Rev. James Stoddard and has chil. :

• 1. Virginia Tryon.
• 2. Alice Kent.
• 3. Sarah Allen.
• 4. George Kent.
• 5. James Kent.

III. Frederic Cleveland,9 b. Mch. 20, 1857 ; d. Dec. 10, 1884.

Child of Geo. L. and Virginia Tryon Kent :

IV. Percy, 9 b. Oct. 17, 1868 ; a manufacturer. (Note from Curator: Attached documents indicate that percy was the son of Matilda, not Virginia. -- Jessica M. German)

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

Story concerning the building that housed Percy Kent's business:

http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-surprising-surviv...