BIOGRAPHIES: John LENT, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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John D. Lent, Rice Lake, Barron County, was born in Tioga county, Pa., 
December 6, 1837, and is a son of John and Elsie Lent. John Lent, Sr., 
died in 1884, and his widow in 1887. Our subject enlisted in Company C, 
Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry, from Charleston township, Tioga county, Pa., 
September 20, 1862, and was engaged in all the battles in which his regiment 
figured. Among the more important were Kilpatrick's raid, Girard Springs, 
siege of Vicksburg and Louisville, Ky. He was mustered out at Nashville, 
Tenn., in 1865, when he returned to Tioga county, Pa., and for three years 
assisted his father on the farm. In 1868 he came to Bloomer, Chippewa county, 
Wis., and took up a homestead and engaged in lumbering interests. In 1872 he 
came to Rice Lake and engaged with the Knapp, Stout & Co. Company, for which 
firm he worked until 1880, since which time he has been engaged in well boring. 
July 5, 1868, he married Miss Julia Ann Chase, whose parents were early 
pioneers in Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Lent have four children: Louis Edward, 
Lucinda Roxanne, George Adolph and Sadie Elsie. Mrs. Lent is a member of the 
Methodist church. Mr. Lent is independent in his political beliefs.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", pages 909-910.