Everett-based Sentry Credit celebrates 31 years in business

Debt collectors aren’t the most popular kids on the block.

It’s as true now as it was in 1992 when James L. Stewart and Mike Mathis cofounded Sentry Credit, a debt collection agency.

They meant to call it Century Credit, but their business cards came back from the printer as Sentry Credit and they kept the name, Mathis said.