Monongalia-Preston County WV Archives Biographies.....Dent, William Marmaduke March 6, 1831 - January 29, 1914
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Source: Year Book 1914-1915, Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia
Author: Sons of the Revolution

Pages 62-63
WILLIAM MARMADUKE DENT

Born at Granville, Monongalia county, Va. (W. Va.), March 6, 1831; died January
29, 1914; was the son of Dr. Marmaduke and Sarah Price Dent. 

He was a grandson of John Dent, who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution
from 1777 to 1780, having served as a private, lieutenant and captain
successively in the Virginia State Line. The Dent family is of English origin.
The American branch was established in Virginia and Maryland as early as 1676,
and its members were prominent planters and men of affairs in both colonies.
Capt. John Dent of the Revolution settled in Monongalia county in 1776, and was
the first sheriff of that county. 

Dr. William Marmaduke Dent, subject of this sketch, was educated in the common
schools of his day, at Monongahela Academy at Morgantown, and was a student two
years at West Point Military Academy, where he was a room-mate of Gen. Philip II
Sheridan. Because of an affliction of asthma, he resigned his cadetship at West
Point and took up the study of medicine in 1852. In 1858 he located in
Morgantown, and in 1863 moved to Newburg [Preston County], where he resided till
his death. 

For a number of years he was surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway at
Newburg, was a member of the American Medical Association, and he was the first
West Virginia delegate to the International and American Medical Congress. He
had been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Mystic
Shrine of Masons since 1872, and of the Society Sons of the Revolution in West
Virginia since 1896. He was several times mayor of Newberg, and was twice a
candidate for the West Virginia State Senate. He was an eminently successful
physician and surgeon, a friend to the needy, and a man of charity toward all. 

On March 25, 1852, he was united in marriage to Miss Harriett Hess of Laurel
Point, who died in February, 1907. To this union three children were born, of
whom one son, Mr. Marmaduke E. Dent, alone survives. 


Additional Comments:
Marriage license, Monongalia County (W)Va, 1852, page 136
William M. Dent and Harriet J. Hess (dau of Balzer Hess, deceased)
date issued and recorded: 25-Mar-1852

Preston County WV, death register, 1907, page 14, line 5
Dent, Harriett J. died 14-Feb-1907 in Lyon District (age 72-11-5)
Cause: Legrippe

Preston County WV, death register, 1914, page 17, line 14
Dent, Wm. M. (wid'r) died 29-Jan-1914 in Grafton (age 82-10-6)
Occupation: Phy. & Surgeon
Cause: Gangrene of Foot


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