William Jasper Kerr

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Husband William Jasper Kerr ¹

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         Father: Andrew Kerr (1807-1886) 1 2 3
         Mother: Anna Shelmadine (1822-1841) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - William Jasper Kerr

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Compiler believes this refers to this individual:
WILLIAM JOSEPH KERR, farmer and Commissioner of Crawford County, P. O. Titusville, was born February 22, 1840, in Rome Township, this county. He is a son of Andrew Kerr, now living in Oil Creek Township, Penn. Our subject enlisted in November, 1861, in the Fifty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, served in the Army of the Potomac, and engaged in the battle of Peach Orchard, Virginia. He received an honorable dis-charge on account of disability in June, 1862. He was married to Carrie Grant, December 6, 1862. By this union there is one son-Worth. Mr. Kerr purchased the farm on which he was reared, formerly owned by his father, and has an estate of 150 acres of well-improved land. He has ever been a Repub-lican. In 1878 he was elected Commissioner of Crawford County, and re-elected in 1881, by a handsome majority. He fills the duties of this posi-tion with honest integrity and to the entire satisfaction of the people. [HCC 1885, 976]

1 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 915.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 554.

3 Earl M. Prather, Alcorn Family Genealogy (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 2003).