William H. Kent

For other people named William Kent, see William Kent (disambiguation).
William Henry Kent[1]
11th Mayor
of Charlestown, Massachusetts
In office
1870–1873
Preceded by Eugene L. Norton
Succeeded by Jonathan Stone
Member of the
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Board of Aldermen
Ward 2[2]
In office
1865–1868
Personal details
Born March 21, 1823[3]
Duxbury, Massachusetts[4]
Died February 7, 1889[3]
Charlestown, Massachusetts[5]
Spouse(s) Rebecca Prentiss, b. West Cambridge, (Arlington), Massachusetts, October 10, 1822.
Parents Alice Kent[4]

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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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
Political offices
Preceded by
Eugene L. Norton		 11th Mayor of
Charlestown, Massachusetts
1870-1873 		Succeeded by
Jonathan Stone


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