Kent family.

Ira and Polly Kent's son, Ira Richardson "Rich" Kent (1834-1875), became a business partner in the mercantile business of J.E. Bacon in Spencer, Massachusetts after working at I. & A. Kent's mercantile business. Rich Kent also worked for Bancroft Manufacturing, makers of machine tools, as well as in cattle sales and auction sales.

Leroy Abdiel "Roy" Kent (1843-1911) was the fourth of Ira and Polly (Curtis) Kent's five children. Leroy Kent was born in Calais on August 25, 1843. He attended a commercial school in Providence, Rhode Island, and was employed in his early years in Burlington, Iowa, in transportation. In 1866, he returned to Vermont where he worked as a merchant in a Craftsbury general store. Between 1873 and 1893, Leroy Kent was a merchant and postmaster in Calais, Vermont. In 1887, he became a silent partner in J.H. McLoud & Company (merchants). After he married Susan Blanche Hollister (1852-1938), known as Blanche, of Hollister Hill in Marshfield, Vermont, in 1875, the couple lived in Kents Corner in Calais. Leroy Kent was a school director in Calais as well as a representative to the Vermont general assembly from 1882-1883. Blanche Kent was the daughter of Samuel "Dwight" Hollister and Flora S. Coburn of Marshfield. She was the niece of Lewis Larned Coburn (1834-1910) of Marshfield, who became a noted patent attorney in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1898, Leroy and Blanche Kent removed to Hardwick, Vermont, where Leroy became an active partner in the J.H. McLoud & Company, and a director of the Hardwick Savings Bank & Trust Company. Leroy Kent retained his Calais properties and collected income from their rentals, lumber, and other resources. Leroy Kent's Hardwick Land Company was instrumental in developing that town. Leroy Kent died on July 22, 1911, and Blanche Kent on October 20, 1938. At the time of his death, Leroy Kent had numerous real estate holdings in Calais, Hardwick, and Colorado; promissory notes from a dissolved mortgage partnership, Stevens, Howard and Kent, based in Craftsbury, Vermont; and an interest in a Sioux City, Iowa, real estate partnership, with other real estate investments in South Dakota, Virginia, and North Dakota. Roy and Blanche Kent had one child, Ira "Rich" Kent.

From the description of Kent family papers : series IV : generation III, 1851-1946. (Vermont Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 726872871