[4] In Oakland, California, she conducted the Multigraph Letter Company,[2] a large direct-by-mail business with headquarters on the seventh floor of the Tribune Tower.

[5] Lent-Barndollar gained her early education largely in the public schools at Scriba, New York, and through self-application, broad travel and comprehensive reading and study, she rounded out a liberal education, besides having developed a musical talent and gained a reputation as a concert and church singer.

[5] She was left a widow within two years after her marriage to Benjamin F. Lent, of Syracuse, New York, and her circumstances were such that she then found it necessary to provide financial support for herself and her infant daughter.

In preparation for this responsibility, she completed a course in the Caton Business College in Buffalo, New York, graduating with honors.

There, she continued her effective services until she found it necessary to seek a change of location for the benefit of her health and that of her daughter.

[5][8] In 1915, after meeting many business women at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition and conferring with them concerning their varied activities, Lent-Barndollar decided to establish in Oakland a business woman's club, and her efforts along this line led to the formation of the Woman's Bureau of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce.

[5] She was influential also in the organization of the Soroptimist Club of Alameda County, California, serving as president in 1930,[8] and a member of the board of directors for two years.

As a vocalist, she held choir positions in several large churches in various cities in the U.S.[5] Widowed after only two years, she married Benjamin F. Lent in 1891,[7] they had one child, a daughter, Myrtle Hope Lent-Holtzmann (born 1892).