Thomas A. Kerr and Annie Miller

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Husband Thomas A. Kerr ^{1 2}

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           Born: 2 Nov 1854 - Slippery Rock Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Thomas Kerr (      -1870) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Forsythe (      -      ) 2

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   Other Spouse: Sarah J. Patton (      -      ) 1

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Wife Annie Miller ¹

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         Father: William Miller (      -      ) 1
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1 M Charles W. Kerr ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas A. Kerr

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He was reared on the home­stead in Slippery Rock township, Butler County, PA, and secured his education in the public schools. At the age of sixteen years he went to New York City and secured employment with an ice company, with which he remained for one year. He then worked as a teamster one year more, when he went on the road as trav­eling salesman for a hardware firm of Clar­ion, PA. For five years he continued to work in that capacity, and then embarked in a gen­eral mercantile business for himself at Eau Claire, Butler County, continuing it for eight years. In 1888 he located at Parkers Landing, where he also engaged in general merchandising as a member of the firm of J. F. Cochran & Co. This association con­tinued until 1892, when he purchased Mr. Cochran's interest, and the firm became T. A. Kerr & Co. Later this became Kerr & McCamey, but on Jan. 25, 1910, Mr. Kerr bought out his partner's interest, and took W. B. Spear into partnership with him, the style becoming T. A. Kerr & Co. This firm was one of the leading mercantile es­tablishments of the city. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church of Parker City, of which he became a ruling elder in 1901. He belonged to Parker Lodge, No. 782, I. O. O. F. In addition to his other interests, he was president of the Parker City Water Company, and a stockholder and vice president of the State Bank of Parkers Landing. For one term he served as a member of the city council; in politics he was a Democrat. [HAC 1914, 524]

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 524.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1018.