Edward Austin Kent
American
Architect - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Silsbee and Kent | 1877 |
Lineage
- Father Henry Mellen Kent
- Brother: William Winthrop Kent
Architect - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Silsbee and Kent | 1877 |
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1854/02/19 | Harriet Ann Farnham, wife of Henry Mellen Kent, gives birth to a son, Edward, in Bangor, Maine. | Born | Bangor, ME | Maine | |||
1875/06/00 | After attending the Briggs Classical School of Buffalo, Edward Kent earns a degree in Civil Engineering from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. | Education | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
1875/06/00 | After attending the Briggs Classical School of Buffalo, Edward Kent earns a degree in Civil Engineering from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. | Education | Arthur K Watson Hall, Yale | New Haven, CT | |||
1877/00/00 | Kent studies architecture at the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in South Kensington, England, returning to the United States in 1877. | Education | Palais des Etudes, Ecole des Beaux-Arts | Paris | |||
1906/00/00 | Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo is completed. | Architect | Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | |||
1910/00/00 | Edward A Kent's office is at 1088 Ellicott Square, Buffalo. | Office | Ellicott Square Building, Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | |||
1912/00/00 | Edward A Kent, a perpetual bachelor, lives at the Buffalo Club on Delaware Avenue. | Home | Buffalo Club, Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | |||
1912/02/00 | Mr Edward Kent begins a two-month vacation in France and Egypt. He plans to retire after returning home. | Life | |||||
1912/04/10 | At Cherbourg, Edward Kent boards the Titanic and settles into first class cabin B-37. Mr Kent will spend time with Archibald Gracie, Helen Churchill Candee, Edward Pomeroy Colley, Hugh Woolner, James Clinch Smith and Mauritz Hakan Bjornstrom-Steffansson. | Life | Sinking of the RMS Titanic | ||||
1912/04/15 | Grasping the severity of the collision, Edward Kent helps Helen Candee to the main deck. She insist that he take her ivory miniature of her mother and a silver flask for safe keeping. Kent helps her into Lifeboat 6. | Life | Sinking of the RMS Titanic | ||||
1912/04/15 | As the ship RMS Titanic sinks, Edward Kent helps women and children into lifeboats. Kent is last seen at around 2:20 being swept into the frigid ocean. | Died | Sinking of the RMS Titanic | ||||
1912/04/30 | The morgue ship MACKAY-BENNETT arrives in Halifax with 190 bodies. After seven days of searching, the Mackay-Bennett had recovered 306 victims, 116 were buried at sea - only 56 had been identified. | In Memoriam | Halifax, CA | Nova Scotia | Sinking of the RMS Titanic | ||
1912/05/01 | Edward Kent's body is delivered to H K Kent in Boston. Mrs Candee's miniature of her mother and flask are still in Edward's jacket pocket, and will eventually be returned to her. Edward Austin Kent is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York. | In Memoriam | Forest Lawn Cemetery | Buffalo, NY |
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