Background
Bent, Samuel Arthur was born on July 1, 1841 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel W. and Mary N. (Barrett) Bent.
Bent, Samuel Arthur was born on July 1, 1841 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel W. and Mary N. (Barrett) Bent.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1861, Master of Arts, 1864. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1865.
Admitted to Suffolk bar, 1865. Was American editor Swiss (Geneva) Times, Galignani’s (Paris) Messenger, 1872-1874. Superintendent schools, Nashua, New Hampshire (U.S.), Clinton, Massachusetts, 1878-1886.
Author: Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men, 1882.
Hints on Language, 1883. Notes to the Golden Legend, 1886.
Married Mary East. Thompson, August 30, 1890.