CHARLES ELLSWORTH KENT
Charles
Ellsworth Kent is representative of the progress agriculture
and stock-raising has made in Lucas county. Settling on section
twenty-one, Jackson township, in 1869, but when eight years of
age, he has since made his home there and attained substantial
success in his occupation.
His farm consists of three hundred acres, located on
sections 21, 29 and 17, and is provided with two sets of good
improvements, his well repaired outbuildings, barns, granaries
and shed and his comfortable residence bespeaking the
prosperity of their owner.
Charles Ellsworth Kent was born in Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, on September 7, 1861, his parents being Mr. and Mrs. William Kent, the former a native of England, who was born June 5, 1826, and died in Jackson township, this county, April 24, 1906, after a long and successful agricultural career. An extended sketch of his life appears in this work under his own name.
Charles Ellsworth Kent was married in 1882 to Miss Carrie C. Hawkins, a native of Van Buren county, Iowa, where she was born January 24, 1866. At an early age she came with her parents to Lucas county and has ever since resided here. Her father was Christopher B. Hawkins, whose life record is given in greater detail in connection with the sketch of C. C. Hawkins. Mr. and Mrs. Kent became the parents of the following children: Albert, born July 18, 1883, a resident of Jackson township; William, born March 7, 1886, also of this township; Harry, born May 31, 1888, who passed away July 31, 1890; Oscar, born October 16, 1892, who resides with his parents on the old home farm; and Raymond, born January 1, 1907. All of these children are natives of Jackson township and those surviving attended common school there. Mr. Kent gives his support to the republican party. Public-spirited and well informed he has always taken a deep interest in the public life of his locality, and for ten years has efficiently served as township trustee, while a member of the school board of Jackson township he has given evidence of his interest in the cause of education. His wife is a member of the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints, in the work of which she takes an active and helpful interest. Fraternally Mr. Kent is a member of the Knights of Pythias, being affiliated with Lucas Lodge, No. 133. A man of many interests, Mr. Kent has become closely connected with the development and advancement of this region and his life labors have not only been productive of individual success but have largely contributed to the general element in his locality, where his sterling traits have won him the high regard and confidence of all those with whom he has come in contact.