Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Kerr, Archibald September 22, 1851 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Archibald Kerr, of the firm of Kerr Brothers, 
furniture dealers and funeral directors, Carmichaels, Penna, 
was born in Cumberland Township, September 22, 1851. He is a 
son of James Kerr and Eleanor Davis Kerr, natives of Greene 
County, and of Irish descent. His father is one of the 
prominent farmers of Cumberland Township. Archibald is the 
seventh in a family of eight children. He received a common 
school education, and early in life learned the cabinet 
makers trade. He worked by the day and job for eight years 
in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and in 1876 engaged in his 
present business at Garard's Fort, Penna, where he remained 
for two years. He then came to Carmichaels where he has 
always had the reputation of doing first class work.
  
      In 1873 Mr Kerr married Frances Clawson, daughter of 
James Clawson. Mrs Kerr is of English descent. They have a 
family of five children: Charles Kerr; Edward Kerr; Lida E 
Kerr; Jesse Kerr; Alexander Kerr; and Harry Kerr. Mr Kerr is 
a leading member of the M E Church, and his wife is a 
Cumberland Presbyterian. In politics Mr Kerr is a Democrat. 
He is a member of the town council, and belongs to the I O O 
F Lodge at Carmichaels, Penna.

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