Edward Austin Kent

Edward Austin Kent was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York. Kent died on April 15, 1912 when the RMS Titanic sank and was seen helping women and children into the lifeboats.

Edward Austin Kent was born in Bangor, Maine on February 19, 1854. Kent moved with his family to Buffalo after the American Civil War, where his father opened a successful department store, Flint amp Kent. Kent attended and graduated from Yale in 1875 and later the cole des BeauxArts, the famous BeauxArts architecture school in Paris. Returning to the U.S. in 1877, he became junior partner in the Syracuse, New York firm of Silsbee and Kent. In 1884 he returned to Buffalo and remained there for the rest of his career, helping to found the Buffalo Society of Architects and receiving many prominent commissions, including Flint amp Kent.

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