. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. ities. Mr. Kent is the son of James and Janet(Scott) Kent. His father was a native ofBothwell, Scotland, where his ancestors hadlived for many generations. He was a floristand landscape gardener, as were his fathersbefore him. His mother was the daughter ofa schoolmaster in Annan, Scotland, who wasan intimate friend of Thomas Carlyle. married Marion Weild Smith, Febru-ary 25, 1879, and they have
. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. ities. Mr. Kent is the son of James and Janet(Scott) Kent. His father was a native ofBothwell, Scotland, where his ancestors hadlived for many generations. He was a floristand landscape gardener, as were his fathersbefore him. His mother was the daughter ofa schoolmaster in Annan, Scotland, who wasan intimate friend of Thomas Carlyle. married Marion Weild Smith, Febru-ary 25, 1879, and they have three children,Robert Thurston, Agnes Scott, and EdwardRaylor Kent. Kenyon, Charles C. (, 94), has beena member of the firm of R. D. Kenyon &Son, manufacturers of woolen machinery,Raritan, N. J., from 1894 to date. Kerr, Charles Volney (, 88), wasborn in Miami County, O., March 27, was brought up on an Illinois wheatfarm, attending district school, high school,and college. He stood foremost in studiesand showed an aptitude in mechanical mat-ters relating to farming. Previous to en-tering Stevens Institute he graduated, in1884, from the scientific course of the West-. C. V. Kerr crn University of Pennsylvania with the de-gree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He was Teacher of Mathematics and Sci-ence at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1888-89;Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineer-ing at Western University of Pennsylvania,1890; Professor of Mechanical Engineering,and Superintendent of Mechanic Arts, atArkansas Industrial University, Fayetteville,Ark., 1891-96; and Director of the Depart-ment of Mechanical Engineering at ArmourInstitute of Technology, Chicago, 111., 1896-1902. In the course of these changes he helpedto plan the course of instruction for PrattInstitute; planned the course in mechanicalengineering and equipped the shops for theWestern University of Pennsylvania; or- THE ALUMNI 453 ganized the department of electrical engi-neering at Fayetteville, and rebui
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