Dr. Franklin D. Kerr and Susan M. Nelson

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Husband Dr. Franklin D. Kerr ¹

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           Born: 16 Aug 1844 - Hookstown, Greene Twp, Beaver Co, PA 2
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         Father: David Kerr (Abt 1811-1887) 2
         Mother: Mary Swaney (Abt 1811-1887) 3

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       Marriage: 7 Sep 1871 3

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Wife Susan M. Nelson ⁴

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         Father: James Nelson (1804-Aft 1888) 5
         Mother: Jane Wallace (1811-      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Helen Kerr ³

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2 F Jennie Kerr ³

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3 F Edith Kerr ³

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4 F Nellie Kerr ³

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5 F Olive Kerr ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Franklin D. Kerr

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He was schooled in his native village and for some time worked at carpentering. When past seventeen he enlisted with his only brother, Samuel, who was breveted major for gallant services as a private in the 140th Regiment P. V. He took part in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Maryland Heights, Bolivar Heights, Halltown and other engagements. After Gettysburg he was transferred and promoted to first lieutenant, Company G, 1st Maryland Cavalry (Cole's Cavalry), and was for a time in command of Company B. He afterward served as adjutant, assistant adjutant-general, commissary, quartermaster, commander of blockhouse with parts of two companies at Back Creek, Virginia, and aide-de-camp to Gen. William H. Seward, and his last services were as judge advocate of a military commission, which sat at Harper's Ferry under General Stevenson, for the trial of bushwhackers confined there. He was recommended to President Lincoln for appointment as a cadet at West Point by General Seward, Colonel Cole, Colonel Vernon and others, but the consent of his parents was withheld. He served in the army three years before he reached his majority. After the war he attended Washington and Jefferson College; taught school, traveled in the West, and after three years' study was graduated from Cleveland Medical Colleges of Wooster University, Ohio. He practiced in his native village for a number of years. He was elected an elder in the Presbyterian church in 1883, of which he was a member beginning when he was sixteen years of age.

In 1888, he and his wife had four daughters living, and three sons and two daughters deceased.

1 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 858, 876.

2 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 858.

3 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 859.

4 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 859, 876.

5 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 876.