VMs: Professor Roland Grubb Kent...?

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

One of the open tasks mentioned on my howtohelp webpage is to trace the 
descendants of Professor Roland Grubb Kent, as he may well have ended up 
with Newbold's early photographic copies of the VMs (ie before the two 
bifolios went missing). I thought I might also try to trace his last home 
address (basically, just for fun) in 1945, which was 324 Aubrey Road, 
Wynnewood, PA

According to multimap, this is a 1/4 mile NNW of Wynnewood train station, 
zip code 19096. A brief history of Wynnewood is 
http://www.mainlinerealestate.com/wynnewood_history.htm

The Lower Merion Historical Society has a large set of coloured railroad 
atlases on its site, which you can use to see who owned a particular 
property at different dates. Here are links to the correct plates for 
Wynnewood station on the 1926, 1937, & 1948 atlases:-
	http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/atlascolor/1926/1926_10.html
	http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/atlascolor/1937/1937_11.html
	http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/atlascolor/1948/1948_04.html

I also found an 1999 aerial photo of the address via TerraServer, to help 
me work out which property I should be looking at. Putting it all together, 
ISTM that the owner was:-
	1926 - Johanna Hayes
	1937 - Mansfield ("House at Ox"??)
	1948 - R. Craig (?)

...and according to whitepages.com, 324's current occupier is Kenneth W 
Moore (who is ~probably~ aged 68, but it's hard to be sure).

None of which actually moves things forward here, except to point out that 
the electronic resources becoming available for this kind of armchair 
research are quite fascinating, if often ill-matched to the task in hand. :-o

BTW, has anyone tried to trace Roland Grubb Kent's descendants / relatives 
through http://www.ancestry.com/ or elsewhere (say, the LDS records etc)?

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling.....


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