Post Office Department          
JJD:JHR
                POST OFFICE INSPECTOR IN CHARGE
                                  New York, N.Y.
 
 
 
                                                            
   October 20, 1938.
 
Hon. James A. Farley,
        Postmaster General,
               New York, N. Y.
 
Dear Mr. Farley:
 
         On October 6, 1938, the President sent you a
memorandum asking if you would have an effort made for the
purpose of locating Sarah DeWitt Lent, first wife of
Franklin T. Lent, who, in 1903 was living with her five
children at 104 Waring Place, Yonkers, N. Y. The
President's memorandum gave the names of the five children
as follows: John DeWitt Lent, Rose DeWitt Lent, Charlotte
Elliot Lent, Harriet DeWitt Lent and Theodore DeWitt Lent.
 
          This matter has been investigated by Inspector J.
J.Broderick, of this Division, and the following is submitted:
 
          Inspector Broderick ascertained that Harriet
DeWitt Lent, whose father was Franklin T. Lent and mother
Sarah DeWitt Lent, and David Vinton Stahl were married on
June 4, 1915, by the Rev. S. Parks of 23 East 38th Street,
New York, N. Y. The witnesses were Jessie Boyd and Meade
Stone. The inspector ascertained that on April 30, 1938,
Mr. and Mrs. David Vinton Stahl removed from 333 East 43rd
Street, New York City, to The Thorncroft Apartments,
Scarsdale, N. Y., where they now reside.
 
             Inspector Broderick further ascertained that
Charlotte Eliot Lent was married to Norton Blackstone Leo
by the Rev. Nathan A. Seagle of 120 West 69th Street, New
York City, on June 5, 1915. Norton Blackstone Leo is
Secretary and Treasurer of Smith and Leo, Inc., Room 915,
108 Park Avenue, this city, and resides with his wife at 50
Primrose Avenue, Tuckahoe, N. Y.
 
              It was further ascertained that Rose DeWitt
Lent married Edmund Vaughan Lewis on November 19, 1908, and
the ceremony was performed by Assistant County Clerk James
A. Francis, New York County; that the witnesses were
Charlotte Eliot Lent and J. A. Judson; and that Edmund
Vaughan Lewis is President of Lewis and Conger at 1152
Sixth Avenue, New York. Mr. F. A. Judson, one of the
witnesses to the marriage, is a practicing attorney at 120
Broadway, this city. Mr. Judson informed Inspector
Broderick