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John B. Kent

Pocahontas County

Memorial to the Honorable J. B. Kent of Pocahontas County

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable J. B. Kent, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

The Honorable J. B. Kent was born October 26, 1859, in Harrison County, Ohio. At the age of eighteen 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 in the real estate and loan business.

On May 21, 1885, Mr. Kent married Susan Struthers who preceded him in death on December 24, 1924. Their four sons, Arnold McEwen, Don C., J. Dolliver and Robert Jackson survive him.

The Honorable J. B. Kent was on the military staff of Governor Frank D. Jackson and a member of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly.

He took a great interest in all community affairs and was ever a staunch supporter of right, honor and duty. In later life he was active in the State Savings Bank, to which he sacrificed a modest fortune in his efforts to save the bank. He was a member of the Rolfe Presbyterian Church and held a 50-year certificate in the Masonic Fraternity.

The Honorable J. B. Kent passed away on December 26, 1948.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fourth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable J. B. Kent, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House, by this resolution, would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

GUY G. BUTLER,

R. C. BERRY,

FRANK KOCH,

Committee.

House District 76