Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
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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