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A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931
HON. JOHN W. KENT, member of the Iowa State Senate for the Fourth District,
is a resident of Chariton, and has brought to the Legislature a successful
experience as a farmer business man.
He was born in Cook County, Illinois, in 1867, and was two years of age when
his parents, William and Hannah (Wherrett) Kent, moved to Iowa and settled
in Lucas County. The Kent family is of English ancestry. Both William Kent
and his wife were born in England. The grandfather, Daniel Kent, was a
British soldier who served under General Pakenham in the concluding act of the War
of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans, where General Jackson repulsed the
British after a bloody attack on the fortification made of cotton bales. Daniel
Kent while in this country as a soldier became so impressed with the spirit of
its citizens and the opportunities for making a fortune that when the
opportunity came he returned here with his family.
John W. Kent grew up on an Iowa farm, had the advantages of country schools,
and since early manhood has had his chief business interests in farming and
stock raising. For some years he specialized in blooded stock. He owns about
370 acres of the fine soil of Lucas County, his farms being well improved
and with excellent equipment. Since 1920 he has occupied a comfortable home at
Chariton, but from that city supervises his farm and livestock.
Mr. Kent has been honored with a number of positions of trust and
responsibility. He was treasurer of his school board, and for six years served a a
member of the County Board of Supervisiors. From 1924 to 1928, for two terms,
he was in the House of Representatives and in 1929 entered the Iowa State
Senate, and the people of his home district point to his record with a great deal
of pride and satisfaction. Mr. Kent is a Republican. He is a member of the
various Masonic bodies, including the Eastern Star, and belongs to the
Community Club and during the World War was identified with the drives for the
sale of bonds and the raising of funds for the Red Cross and other causes.
Mr. Kent married in 1888 Miss Addie Thomas, whose people came to Lucas
County at an early day. She left one daughter, Ethel, who is the wife of William
E. Wood, of Lucas County. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have five sons, William, John,
Fred, Earl and Verna. In 1891 Mr. Kent married Mrs. Dora (Carson) McLaughlin,
of Clark County, Iowa. The Carsons came to Iowa from Ohio and Pennsylvania
in the early '50s. Mrs. Kent by her former marriage has a son, William
McLaughlin, who lives at Chariton and is the father of three children: Bertha,
wife of Albert Nussbaum, Kermit and Margary.
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