Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Rev. Aaron Harvey Kerr and Elizabeth Craig




Husband Rev. Aaron Harvey Kerr 1

           Born: 1 Jan 1819 - Washington Co, PA 1
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           Died: 27 Feb 1890 - Rochester, Olmsted Co, MN 1
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         Father: Aaron Kerr (1776-1854) 2
         Mother: Sarah Peppard (      -      ) 3


       Marriage: 13 Oct 1847 1



Wife Elizabeth Craig 1 4

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         Father: Hon. Walter Craig (1786-1875) 4 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Scott (1794-1866) 4 5




Children

General Notes: Husband - Rev. Aaron Harvey Kerr


He was a student of the academy taught by Rev. J. D. Mason, and of the academy of J. P. Thomson. He graduated from Jefferson College in the Class of 1843, studied theology in the Western Theological Seminary, was licensed by the Presbytery of Ohio, April, 1846. He preached as a pioneer in many of the early churches of the west, and was for a time connected with the educational interests of St. Peter's, Minnesota.

In youth he was a man of fine physical appearance, tall, erect, and full of vigorous nerve, fond of a joke, but always carried his religion with him.

He was a soldier of the Civil war.

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Sources


1 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 74.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 536, 542.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 536.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 740.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 219, 1224.


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