Kent family papers : Louise Andrews Kent collection, 1783-2000 (bulk:1875-1969).

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Kent family papers : Louise Andrews Kent collection, 1783-2000 (bulk:1875-1969).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/726870206

The Kent family papers consist of an extensive collection of materials from a prosperous family of Calais, Vermont. Ira Rich Kent and Louise Andrews Kent are the main focus of this collection, which contains mostly material from the Kent family, but also from the allied families of Hollister, Coburn, Andrews, Edgerly, Wilder, Curtis(s), Bliss, Tarshis, Gay, and others. Although the collection spans the years 1783 to 2000, the bulk is concentrated between 1875 and 1969, in the generations of Leroy Abdiel Kent and Ira "Rich" Kent. In addition to the vast genealogical and personal information on family members, the collection offers much to the Calais researcher in the form of diaries, receipts, financial papers, correspondence, house and estate inventories, and photographs, all of which provide both direct and peripheral information on the town. Local color abounds in stories written by Rich Kent for The Youth Companion, which depict life in his home town; the Mrs. Appleyard books by Louise Kent also invoke Calais' rural lifestyle as seen through the eyes of an outsider. The historian may learn about Calais' economy of the period through the voluminous, detailed correspondence and records regarding management of farm and other properties. Timber management and production, maple syrup production, local labor resources, entrepreneurial ventures, real estate investments, retail operations, livestock trading, pricing over various periods and the early years of Calais' (and Vermont's) "gentrification" are also represented. The papers are mostly of a personal nature - diaries, record books, letters, school materials, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and photographs. Also included are club and organizational papers, personal financial, and personal business information, including estate papers. The collection does not include routine business papers from Rich Kent's publishing career as employee of Houghton Mifflin or The Youth Companion. It does include papers from entrepreneurial family endeavors (such as account books from I. & A. Kent and records of real estate ventures).

41.5 linear feet.

Vermont Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8096015

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Hollis family.

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Kent, Louise Andrews, 1886-1969

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Louise Andrews Kent was born about 1887 in Brookline, Mass. She married Rich Kent in 1912. She became a newspaper columnist and author of children's books and cookbooks, assuming the persona of "Mrs. Appleyard," to write a series of New England cookbooks. A resident of Brookline, Kent spent summers in Calais, Vt. Louise Andrews Kent died in 1969. From the description of Louise Andrews Kent papers. (Vermont Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36065048 Louise...

Edgerly family.

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Wilder family.

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Andrews family.

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Kent, Ira Rich, 1876-1945

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Kent family.

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Remember Kent (1775-1855) was born on June 11, 1775, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, to Ezekiel and Ruth (Gary/Garey/Geary) Kent. He was descended from Joseph Kent of England, an emigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645, who settled in Swansea, Mass. Remember Kent removed to Calais, Vermont, in 1798, and a year later married Rachel Bliss, who had also come there from Rehoboth. The couple settled and farmed at a crossroads which would become known as Kents Corner, near the center...