This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LENT, CHASE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZEC.2ACE/1184 Message Board Post: ** Posted for informational purposes only -- poster is not related to the subject of this biography. John D. Lent, Rice Lake, Barron County, was born in Tioga county, Pa., December 6, 1837, and is a son of John and Elsie Lent. John Lent, Sr., died in 1884, and his widow in 1887. Our subject enlisted in Company C, Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry, from Charleston township, Tioga county, Pa., September 20, 1862, and was engaged in all the battles in which his regiment figured. Among the more important were Kilpatrick's raid, Girard Springs, siege of Vicksburg and Louisville, Ky. He was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., in 1865, when he returned to Tioga county, Pa., and for three years assisted his father on the farm. In 1868 he came to Bloomer, Chippewa county, Wis., and took up a homestead and engaged in lumbering interests. In 1872 he came to Rice Lake and engaged with the Knapp, Stout & Co. Company, for which firm he worked until 1880, since which time he has been engaged in well boring. July 5, 1868, he married Miss Julia Ann Chase, whose parents were early pioneers in! Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Lent have four children: Louis Edward, Lucinda Roxanne, George Adolph and Sadie Elsie. Mrs. Lent is a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Lent is independent in his political beliefs. -- Transcribed from the book "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", pages 909-910