Kent, Joseph

KENT, ENOCHS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/13/2013 at 10:06:45

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

KENT, JOSEPH—Madison Twp—pg 956. Farmer, section 23, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in Putnam Co., Indiana, in 1830. There, after finishing his education, he engaged in tilling the soil till 1854, when he came to Iowa and settled in this township, where he now lives and owns 136 acres of good land, a part of the same being timber land, having a good house on his farm. Mr. Kent was married, the fall of 1853, in Montezuma, to Miss Eliza J. Enochs, of this county, and a native of Ohio (aged sixteen). They have four children: Bailey (aged twenty-six), Lavinia (aged twenty-three), Joseph E. (aged eighteen) and Anna M. (aged twelve years). Mrs. Eliza Kent is one of the earliest settlers in this township.