Obituary in the Seattle Times on 14 Feb 1949.
Geo. Hixson Lent Rites to Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for George Hixson Lent, 91 years old, last of the four partners who founded the Alaska Steamship Company, will be held at 3 o’clock tomorrow in the Bonney-Watson Chapel. He died Saturday.
Mr. Lent, born In Naugatuck, Conn., worked on steamboats on the Hudson River as a youth. Coming to Seattle in 1890, he became a chief engineer on the Northern Pacific Railway’s old City of Kingston, an overnight passenger vessel which made trips from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C.
In 1894, Mr. Lent joined with Charles E. Peabody, Walter Oakes, and George Roberts to found the Alaska Company. They started service to Southeastern Alaska with the small converted passenger steamer Willapa, on which Mr. Lent served as chief engineer.
They organized the Puget Sound Navigation Company in 1909. Mr. Lent sold his holdings to the Guggenheim interests in 1909, but remained as director of the Puget Sound Company until his death. He lived at the Olympic Hotel.
Mr. Lent was a member of the Rainier Club, the Seattle Golf Club and the Seniors’ Golf Association.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Amouroux, Seattle, and Mrs. William L. Finger, Saugerties, N.Y., and two brothers, John W. Lent, Glasco, N.Y., and W. L. Lent, Beacon, N.Y.
Honorary pallbearers will be Capt. H. I. Anderson, J. H. Bloedel, Story Birdseye, Charles Franklin, Joshua Green, Jr., Leslie Grill, Fred F. Harlow, H. B. Jones, C.R. Lonergan, Harry Markey, Capt. Alex M. Peabody, Folger Peabody, L.B. Peabody, Judge John S. Robinson, W. H. Stilliman and H. C. Strassburger.
Geo. Hixson Lent Rites to Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for George Hixson Lent, 91 years old, last of the four partners who founded the Alaska Steamship Company, will be held at 3 o’clock tomorrow in the Bonney-Watson Chapel. He died Saturday.
Mr. Lent, born In Naugatuck, Conn., worked on steamboats on the Hudson River as a youth. Coming to Seattle in 1890, he became a chief engineer on the Northern Pacific Railway’s old City of Kingston, an overnight passenger vessel which made trips from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C.
In 1894, Mr. Lent joined with Charles E. Peabody, Walter Oakes, and George Roberts to found the Alaska Company. They started service to Southeastern Alaska with the small converted passenger steamer Willapa, on which Mr. Lent served as chief engineer.
They organized the Puget Sound Navigation Company in 1909. Mr. Lent sold his holdings to the Guggenheim interests in 1909, but remained as director of the Puget Sound Company until his death. He lived at the Olympic Hotel.
Mr. Lent was a member of the Rainier Club, the Seattle Golf Club and the Seniors’ Golf Association.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Amouroux, Seattle, and Mrs. William L. Finger, Saugerties, N.Y., and two brothers, John W. Lent, Glasco, N.Y., and W. L. Lent, Beacon, N.Y.
Honorary pallbearers will be Capt. H. I. Anderson, J. H. Bloedel, Story Birdseye, Charles Franklin, Joshua Green, Jr., Leslie Grill, Fred F. Harlow, H. B. Jones, C.R. Lonergan, Harry Markey, Capt. Alex M. Peabody, Folger Peabody, L.B. Peabody, Judge John S. Robinson, W. H. Stilliman and H. C. Strassburger.
Obituary in the Seattle Times on 14 Feb 1949.
Geo. Hixson Lent Rites to Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for George Hixson Lent, 91 years old, last of the four partners who founded the Alaska Steamship Company, will be held at 3 o’clock tomorrow in the Bonney-Watson Chapel. He died Saturday.
Mr. Lent, born In Naugatuck, Conn., worked on steamboats on the Hudson River as a youth. Coming to Seattle in 1890, he became a chief engineer on the Northern Pacific Railway’s old City of Kingston, an overnight passenger vessel which made trips from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C.
In 1894, Mr. Lent joined with Charles E. Peabody, Walter Oakes, and George Roberts to found the Alaska Company. They started service to Southeastern Alaska with the small converted passenger steamer Willapa, on which Mr. Lent served as chief engineer.
They organized the Puget Sound Navigation Company in 1909. Mr. Lent sold his holdings to the Guggenheim interests in 1909, but remained as director of the Puget Sound Company until his death. He lived at the Olympic Hotel.
Mr. Lent was a member of the Rainier Club, the Seattle Golf Club and the Seniors’ Golf Association.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Amouroux, Seattle, and Mrs. William L. Finger, Saugerties, N.Y., and two brothers, John W. Lent, Glasco, N.Y., and W. L. Lent, Beacon, N.Y.
Honorary pallbearers will be Capt. H. I. Anderson, J. H. Bloedel, Story Birdseye, Charles Franklin, Joshua Green, Jr., Leslie Grill, Fred F. Harlow, H. B. Jones, C.R. Lonergan, Harry Markey, Capt. Alex M. Peabody, Folger Peabody, L.B. Peabody, Judge John S. Robinson, W. H. Stilliman and H. C. Strassburger.
Geo. Hixson Lent Rites to Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for George Hixson Lent, 91 years old, last of the four partners who founded the Alaska Steamship Company, will be held at 3 o’clock tomorrow in the Bonney-Watson Chapel. He died Saturday.
Mr. Lent, born In Naugatuck, Conn., worked on steamboats on the Hudson River as a youth. Coming to Seattle in 1890, he became a chief engineer on the Northern Pacific Railway’s old City of Kingston, an overnight passenger vessel which made trips from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C.
In 1894, Mr. Lent joined with Charles E. Peabody, Walter Oakes, and George Roberts to found the Alaska Company. They started service to Southeastern Alaska with the small converted passenger steamer Willapa, on which Mr. Lent served as chief engineer.
They organized the Puget Sound Navigation Company in 1909. Mr. Lent sold his holdings to the Guggenheim interests in 1909, but remained as director of the Puget Sound Company until his death. He lived at the Olympic Hotel.
Mr. Lent was a member of the Rainier Club, the Seattle Golf Club and the Seniors’ Golf Association.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Amouroux, Seattle, and Mrs. William L. Finger, Saugerties, N.Y., and two brothers, John W. Lent, Glasco, N.Y., and W. L. Lent, Beacon, N.Y.
Honorary pallbearers will be Capt. H. I. Anderson, J. H. Bloedel, Story Birdseye, Charles Franklin, Joshua Green, Jr., Leslie Grill, Fred F. Harlow, H. B. Jones, C.R. Lonergan, Harry Markey, Capt. Alex M. Peabody, Folger Peabody, L.B. Peabody, Judge John S. Robinson, W. H. Stilliman and H. C. Strassburger.
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