HIRAM KENT

    Hiram Kent, farmer, is the fourth child of Silas and Olive (West) Kent, natives of New Jersey and Connecticut, respectively, who came to Ohio in 1807 and located in Franklin County, where they were among the early pioneers.  Our subject was born in Franklin County, in 1807, about three months after his family arrived at their Western home.  The family subsequently removed to Greene County, and from there to Montgomery County, where they remained until Hiram attained the age of thirteen years, when they moved to Madison County and settled on Darby Plains.  They subsequently moved to Union County and settled on the farm now owned by George Caldwell, which they afterward sold, and purchased in the same township another farm, upon which the father passed the rest of his life, dying in the fifty-sixth year of his age.  His wife afterward moved to Appanoose County, Iowa, where she died.  They raised a family of thirteen children, seven of whom are living.  He was a man of quiet, unostentatious habits, who had no aspirations for political honors and gave his entire time to the pursuits of private life.  The subject of this sketch remained at home until April 16, 1829, when he was married, on the home place, by Rev. Samuel Bradford, to Miss Miranda Harrington, who was born at East Montpelier, Vt., November 8, 1807.  To them were born seven children, of whom two survive, viz.: Cicero and Lucinda.  The former married Margaret J. Moffard and has five children, three sons and two daughters.  The latter is the wife of E. W. Barlow.  Mr. Kent settled on the farm now occupied by him in 1838.  It consists of 162 acres of valuable land.  His advantages for education in early life were limited, and the substance of which he is now possessed has been acquired by his own energy, economy and perseverance.  He is a thorough Republican in politics, and for thirty years has been a member of the Masonic order.  His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.