Miles  C. Kent - Biography

From "History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Candy Grubb (candyg@theofficenet.com)
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MILES  C. KENT,
    general farmer and veterinary surgeon, resides seven miles out from
Newport, Stevens county, on the Pend d' Oreille river. He was born at Bently
creek, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1835, the son of Jonathan and Patience
(Goff) Kent, natives of New York. When young they moved to Pennsylvania,
where they lived many years, but subsequently returned to New York, where
they died. They were the parents of fourteen children, one dying in infancy;
Sophia, Samuel, Vine, Annie, James M., Miles C., Hannah, Roswell, Stephen,
Ambrose, Hector, Amitta and Phoebe. The maternal grandfather of our subject
was a Baptist minister in New York.
    Until he was twelve years of age our subject attended the public
schools of the neighborhood in which he resided, in New York. He then worked
on a farm three years, purchased twenty acres of land, worked for, other
parties with his team, and bought and sold horses, following this line of
business until he was twenty-five years of age. In 1860 Mr. Kent purchased a
canal boat, on the Erie canal, and followed this business during the Civil
war. Following the surrender of General Lee he sold his boats and again began
farming, He also learned the horse farrier business and went to Michigan,
where he remained until 1891, at which period he located in Stevens county,
securing a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres of land, where he has
since resided. He has seventy acres under cultivation, mainly devoted to hay,
all fenced and all of which is susceptible of irrigation. There are on the
place five hundred thousand feet of timber and poles.
    Our subject was married in 1860 to Esther White, daughter of John and
Hannah White, the father a native of Vermont, the mother of New York. They
have three children: Minnie M., wife of P. F . Bouns, of Buttersville. Mason
county, Michigan; F. A., in Stevens county; and Mary E., living in Mason
county, Michigan.
    Mr. Kent is a Democrat, and interested in the various campaigns of
his party. He is a member of the Baptist church  and the  A. F.& A. M.

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