Kent, A. M.

A. M. KENT, of the Corry Woodenware Manufacturing Company, established 1867, succeeding David H. Wilder in 1879. Our subject was born in Vermont in 1840; he was united in marriage with Mrs. Wetmore, daughter of Chapin Hall, and widow of C.C. Wetmore, by whom she had two children— Chapin H., partner in the Woodenware Manufacturing Company, Corry, and Charles D. Chapin Hall died in 1879; he was proprietor of a manufacturing and lumbering business, which business is now managed by his son-in-law, A. M. Kent. Mr. and Mrs. Kent have had one child— Morgan. Mr. Kent came to Corry in 1865; was first with Wetmore, Hutchinson & Dudley; then bought and ran for a few years the Kent Oil Works. He is President of the Jamestown, N.Y., Water-works, built in 1882, and also President and principal owner of the Warren, Penn., works, built by himself and brother in 1873. Our subject was interested in lumbering and manufacturing pails before the war. His present works afford employment for 100 men; they turn out daily 2,000 pails, 500 washtubs and 300 butter tubs, consuming 3,000,000 feet of timber annually. In addition to the above industries, Mr. Kent is principal owner of the Corry Gas and Water Works, he and his brother being the principal promoters in establishing the same in 1867. He has also an interest in a log saw mill at Salamanca, on the Allegheny River, and in a large sash and door factory, established in Newark, N.J., in 1872.