Person Sheet


Name Silas Lent
Birth 14 Nov 1820, Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, NY
Death 12 Nov 1886
Occupation Marine Engineer
Father Hercules Lent (1795-1871)
Mother Hetty Montross (1797-1835)
Spouses:
1 UNNAMED
No Children
2 UNNAMED
No Children
Notes for Silas Lent
He went to San Francisco, CA, in 1849, on the steamer "Sea Gull," as an engineer. While in that city, he became interested in real estate, and was owner of a large tract of valuable land, and also owner of several harbor verssels, and consequently accumulated a large fortune, and at his death, disposed of it to his brothers and sisters, besides leaving his widow rich.
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