From the Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1876-77, by R. L. Polk & Co.

KENTON.

A thriving village of 300 inhabitants in the southeastern part of Obion County, 15 miles from Troy, the county town, and 173 from Nashville. It is on the Mobile & Ohio R. R. and the Obion River, from which power is derived for a grist and saw mill. It contains 2 churches — Methodist and Presbyterian, an academy, a number of stores and such offices, shops, etc., as are usually found in a prosperous village. It was settled in 1865, incorporated 1874. Cotton and general produce are exported. Telegraph, Western Union. Express, Southern. Mail daily. W. F. Jones, postmaster.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

ATKINSON, S. W. – grocery and saloon.
CARROLL & HOLLOMAN – general store.
CAZORT, B. F. – shoemaker.
CLAYTON & ZARRICOR – general store.
FOSTER, C. L. – lawyer.
FOSTER, L. J. – jeweler.
FOSTER, R. H. – notary public.
GARRISON, N. N. – saddlery.
GARRISON, ___ – miller.
HOWELL & CASEY – general store.
HOWELL & TAYLOR – grocers.
JONES, W. F. – general store.
LAWRENCE, F. P. – physician.
MITCHELL, J. W. C. – hotel.
MOSLEY, T. L. – lawyer.
NEEDHAM, E. – grocer.
NORTHERN, J. M. – botanic physician.
PHARR, W. C. – station agent.
POWELL & BRO. – dentists.
RAMSEY, G. J. – physician.
RAMSEY & BRO. – druggists.
ROSSON & BRO. – shoemakers.
SMITH, J. L. – saloon.
TAYLOR, E. A. – physician.
TILGHMAN & BRO. – grocers.
TILGHMAN & ROWELL – druggists.
WEST, Mrs. M.  J. – hotel.
WILSON & FLOWERS – dry goods.
WORTZ & BRO. – blacksmiths.