- A. C. KENT, manufacturer of fanning mills, corn planters,
clothes wringers, etc.; came to
- Janesville in 1861. Enlisted in Co. E, 3d W.V.C., Nov. 6,
1861; was Lieutenant of that company and resigned June 13, 1863.
For five years engaged in distilling and vinegar business; afterward,
for five years in the wholesale and retail liquor business; since
then, manufacturing; he was born in Canada Sept. 1, 1834; lived
in Monroe Co., N.Y., several years; in 1853, 1854 and 1855, was
clerk in the International Hotel at Niagara Falls; came to Chicago
in 1855, in the ticket office of the M. S. R.R. where he was
employed two years; in the spring of 1859 went to Colorado as
a member of the Original Chicago Mining Co., which engaged in
mining on what was then called Chicago Creek; in the fall, returned
to Chicago; thence went to Canada, where he remained six months
in the distillery business, then removed to St. Louis, where
he was for a time engaged in the marble and slate business; afterward,
for a short time a resident of Lexington, Ky.; then came to Wisconsin.
Married Harriet N. LIDDLE Oct. 23, 1866; she was born in Belleville,
Canada.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 709.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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