http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B00E0DF1739E333A25756C0A96F9C946997D6CF found this while doing research, no relation to my line.as far as I know
...thought I would pass this on to someone who might have this SARGENT in their family.
born on November 18, 1851 son of Charles Edwin Sargent,
a farmer, and his wife Mary C. Kinney Sargent
April 1902 he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Commissioner General of Immigration