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Germanicus Kent
Germanicus A. Kent (1791–1862) together with Thatcher Blake and Lewis Lemon founded Rockford, Illinois, USA in 1834.
==Biography==
Germanicus A. Kent was born in Suffield, Connecticut in 1791 and attend Yale College.〔 Around 1822, Kent moved to Huntsville, Alabama, establishing himself as a dry goods merchant, marrying Arabella Amiss of Blacksburg, Virginia on June 7, 1827.〔〔 Kent was later a cotton merchant as a partner in the firm of Patton, Donegan & Co at the Bell Cotton Factory on the Flint river near Huntsville.〔
The Kent family, including Lewis Lemon, a slave purchased by Germanicus as a boy, relocated to Illinois in 1834. After exploring the local area, Kent, Lemon and Thatcher Blake, a school teacher and farmer from Oxford, Maine, founded the settlement that was later to be called Rockford in 1834-1835.〔〔〔 Germanicus and Arabella's daughter, Mary, was born in Rockford in 1936. They also had younger two sons called Lewis and John.〔 In 1843, the Kent family returned to Arabella's hometown of Blacksburg, Virginia.〔〔〔 Arabella died on May 26, 1851 and from 1856 Germanicus lived with his daughter, (now Mary Black) in Blacksburg until his death on March 1, 1862.〔
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