Alfred Abraham Kent was born in Caldwell County, North Carolina on November 2, 1858. Kent was a physician from Caldwell County who served as a legislator (1911 & 1915), as a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners, as president of the North Carolina Medical Society, and as a member of the State Board of Health. He relocated to Winter Park, Florida in 1925, at which place he died on August 11, 1944.