William H. Kent

William Henry Kent (March 21, 1823 – February 7, 1889) was a Massachusetts politician who served as a member of the Boston, Massachusetts, Board of Aldermen, the Charlestown, Massachusetts, Board of Aldermen, on the Charlestown, Massachusetts School Committee, and as the eleventh mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Family life

Kent married Rebecca Prentiss of West Cambridge, (Arlington), Massachusetts, in that town on August 5, 1846,^[6] they had one child, a daughter, Alice Kent.^[7]

Notes

1. ↑ Briggs, Lloyd Vernon (1898), Genealogies of the different families bearing the name of Kent in the United, Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill Press, p. 99 
2. ↑ A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers, Boston, MA: City of Boston Printing Department, 1909, pp. 353–354. 
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Briggs, Lloyd Vernon (1898), Genealogies of the different families bearing the name of Kent in the United States, Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill Press, p. 99 
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Briggs, Lloyd Vernon (1898), Genealogies of the different families bearing the name of Kent in the United States, Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill Press, p. 99 
5. ↑ Briggs, Lloyd Vernon (1898), Genealogies of the different families bearing the name of Kent in the United States, Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill Press, p. 99. 
6. ↑ Woods, Henry Earnest (1904), Vital records of Arlington, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, p. 86. 
7. ↑ Briggs, Lloyd Vernon (1898), Genealogies of the different families bearing the name of Kent in the United States, Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill Press, p. 99