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Permanent LinkJohn B. Kent
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State Representative
Republican
| Real Estate | |
| Pocahontas | |
| 28 | |
| 01/08/1900 - 01/12/1902 | |
| 76 |
Born on October 26, 1859 in Harrison County, Ohio. At age of 18 he entered the Regular Army as a member of the 7th Infantry and spent five years on the frontier participating in several expeditions against the Indians in Minnesota, Colorado, and Wyoming. He was discharged from the army in 1884 and came to Rolfe where he and his brother, David Kent, went into the business of cutting and shipping wild hay. They later engaged a real estate and a loan business. On May 21, 1885, he married Susan Struthers. He was on the military staff of Frank D. Jackson and a member of the Iowa legislature serving in the Twenty-eighth General Assembly, 1900. He was a member of the Rolfe Presbyterian Church and held a certificate in the Masonic Fraternity.