San Benito-Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Kent, Henry E. 1853 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

HENRY E. KENT, one of the most enterprising and popular business and public men
of Pacific Grove, California, was born in Yates City, Knox county, Illinois,
March 17, 1853. His early life was passed in his native place and he graduated
at Mount Morris Seminary at the age of nineteen years.

  On first coming to California, he settled on a farm near Hollister, San Benito
county, and was for some time engaged in agricultural pursuits. To benefit his
wife's health, he removed, in 1888, to Pacific Grove, where he has ever since
resided, meeting with flattering success in business. On first coming to this
city he purchased the mammoth livery stable from J. O. Johnson, and by untiring
energy and careful management enlarged both his facilities and trade until he
now has one of the most commodious and best appointed establishments of the kind
on the coast. As a citizen, he is strikingly public-spirited and progressive,
ever the first to put his shoulder to the wheel of the city's enterprises. An
admiring constituency elected him one of the first Council men, in which
position he was untiring in his efforts to revoke the old charter and secure the
issuance of a new one, reincorporating the Grove as a separate city, distinct
and apart from old Monterey. He was chosen as a committee of one to wait on the
Legislature then in session at Sacramento, and present the matter for the
consideration of that honorable body. His success is sufficient proof of the
wisdom of their choice.

  He was married November 7, 1876, to Miss S. A. Dunlap, an estimable lady of
Buda, Illinois, and-they have three interesting children.

  As a husband and father, business man and public citizen, he has always been
the same, able, upright and whole-souled man, and justly enjoys the esteem of
his entire community.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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