Advertisement

Kent Sarver Clow

Advertisement

Kent Sarver Clow

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
14 Dec 1952 (aged 64)
Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Clow
Memorial ID
View Source
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1910, YALE COLLEGE, p. 96: Kent Sarver Clow was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 4, 1888. William E. Clow, his father, born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in i860, is in the manufacturing' firm of James B. Clow & Sons, in Chicago. Mrs. Clow was Margaret Sarver. Clow had a brother in the class of 1907, W. E. Clow.

Clow prepared for Yale at the University School in Chicago. He took an Oration appointment. He has been active in Dwight Hall work and has collected for Yale in China. He played on the 1910 class and University golf teams. He was a member of the City Government Club, has been a News editor since Freshman year and served on the Cap and Gown committee. Alpha Delta Phi. Elihu Club. In Freshman year he roomed alone at 242 York Street; in Sophomore year with Ewen, T. S. Barnes and Hay at 22 College Street; in Junior year with Ewen in 260 Durfee; in Senior year with Ewen and Hartridge in 31 Yanderbilt.

Clow expects to go into manufacturing. His permanent address is 912 Buena Avenue, Chicago, 111.


WATER WORKS ENGINEERING (1953), p.44:
KENT S. CLOW DIES AT LAKE FOREST, ILL.
Kent S. Clow, President of James B. Clow and Sons, Chicago, Ill., and its subsidiary companies, Eddy Valve Company, waterford, N.Y., and Iowa Valve....
p. 219: W.E. CLOW AND J. MADDEN PROMOTED
TO HEAD JAMES B. CLOW AND SONS
James B. Clow and Sons, Chicago, Ill., has announced that William E. Clow, Jr., has been elected Chairman of the company's Board of Directors.

Who Was Who in Chicago and Illinois (1926), p.186; (1936), p. 203:
Clow, Kent Sarver, vice pres. James B. Clow & Sons; b. Chicago, Apr. 4, 1888; s. William E. and Margaret (Sarver) Clow; A.B., Yale Univ., 1910;

Who Was Who in America, 1960, p.160:
Pres. and dir. James B. Clow & Sons, Chicago, Ill.; pres. and dir. Eddy Valve Co., Waterford, N.Y., Iowa Valve Co., Oskaloosa, Iowa; dir., First Nat. Bank, Lake Forest, Ill. President United Charities, 1932, 1934 (part director); director Lake Forest Hosp. Assn. Clubs: Chicago (sec.),...Died Dec. 14, 1952; buried Lake Forest (Ill.) Cemetery.

AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, vol. 45 (1953), p. 50: Kent S. Clow, president of James B. Clow & Sons since 1942, died at his home in Lake Forest, 111., on December 14, 1952, at the age of 64.


WHERE THEY'RE BURIED: A DIRECTORY CONTAINING MORE THAN 20,000 NAMES OF NOTABLE PERSONS BURIED IN AMERICAN CEMETERIES by Thomas E. Spencer, 1998, p. 52: Clow, Kent Sarver (1888-1952), Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Ill.



He married first Eleanor Corwith Hamill and they had one child, Elise ("Peggy"), b. 28 Sep 1916 Evanston, Cook Co., Ill.

He married, second (Feb. 15, 1922), Frances Reid Jones (1889-1967)
and had three children, including Eleanor Corwith Hamill, Kent Sarver Clow Jr., and William Ellsworth Clow II.
(The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the United States, Volume 5 (1933), p. 291.
Lexington, KY. Herald, Feb. 22, 1922 & Feb. 28, 1922, p.6.

Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1691: Kent Sarver Clow, Lake Forest, Ill.
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1910, YALE COLLEGE, p. 96: Kent Sarver Clow was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 4, 1888. William E. Clow, his father, born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in i860, is in the manufacturing' firm of James B. Clow & Sons, in Chicago. Mrs. Clow was Margaret Sarver. Clow had a brother in the class of 1907, W. E. Clow.

Clow prepared for Yale at the University School in Chicago. He took an Oration appointment. He has been active in Dwight Hall work and has collected for Yale in China. He played on the 1910 class and University golf teams. He was a member of the City Government Club, has been a News editor since Freshman year and served on the Cap and Gown committee. Alpha Delta Phi. Elihu Club. In Freshman year he roomed alone at 242 York Street; in Sophomore year with Ewen, T. S. Barnes and Hay at 22 College Street; in Junior year with Ewen in 260 Durfee; in Senior year with Ewen and Hartridge in 31 Yanderbilt.

Clow expects to go into manufacturing. His permanent address is 912 Buena Avenue, Chicago, 111.


WATER WORKS ENGINEERING (1953), p.44:
KENT S. CLOW DIES AT LAKE FOREST, ILL.
Kent S. Clow, President of James B. Clow and Sons, Chicago, Ill., and its subsidiary companies, Eddy Valve Company, waterford, N.Y., and Iowa Valve....
p. 219: W.E. CLOW AND J. MADDEN PROMOTED
TO HEAD JAMES B. CLOW AND SONS
James B. Clow and Sons, Chicago, Ill., has announced that William E. Clow, Jr., has been elected Chairman of the company's Board of Directors.

Who Was Who in Chicago and Illinois (1926), p.186; (1936), p. 203:
Clow, Kent Sarver, vice pres. James B. Clow & Sons; b. Chicago, Apr. 4, 1888; s. William E. and Margaret (Sarver) Clow; A.B., Yale Univ., 1910;

Who Was Who in America, 1960, p.160:
Pres. and dir. James B. Clow & Sons, Chicago, Ill.; pres. and dir. Eddy Valve Co., Waterford, N.Y., Iowa Valve Co., Oskaloosa, Iowa; dir., First Nat. Bank, Lake Forest, Ill. President United Charities, 1932, 1934 (part director); director Lake Forest Hosp. Assn. Clubs: Chicago (sec.),...Died Dec. 14, 1952; buried Lake Forest (Ill.) Cemetery.

AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, vol. 45 (1953), p. 50: Kent S. Clow, president of James B. Clow & Sons since 1942, died at his home in Lake Forest, 111., on December 14, 1952, at the age of 64.


WHERE THEY'RE BURIED: A DIRECTORY CONTAINING MORE THAN 20,000 NAMES OF NOTABLE PERSONS BURIED IN AMERICAN CEMETERIES by Thomas E. Spencer, 1998, p. 52: Clow, Kent Sarver (1888-1952), Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Ill.



He married first Eleanor Corwith Hamill and they had one child, Elise ("Peggy"), b. 28 Sep 1916 Evanston, Cook Co., Ill.

He married, second (Feb. 15, 1922), Frances Reid Jones (1889-1967)
and had three children, including Eleanor Corwith Hamill, Kent Sarver Clow Jr., and William Ellsworth Clow II.
(The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the United States, Volume 5 (1933), p. 291.
Lexington, KY. Herald, Feb. 22, 1922 & Feb. 28, 1922, p.6.

Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1691: Kent Sarver Clow, Lake Forest, Ill.


Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement