Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Kerr, John C. December 28, 1832 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      John C Kerr, manufacturer of saddle trees, was born in 
Carmichaels, Penna, December 28, 1832. He is a son of 
William Kerr and Elizabeth Curl Kerr, being the third in 
their family of eight children. He was reared in Greene 
County, and early if life learned his trade with his father, 
who still resides near Carmichaels, where John C Kerr has 
worked for many year. In 1859 Mr Kerr married Caroline 
Horner, daughter of Amos Horner. They were parents of two 
children: Mary Ellen Kerr, wife of John Bell; and Margaret 
Kerr, wife of John Mossburg. Their mother died in 1865. Mr 
Kerr was a second time united in marriage February 9, 1869, 
with Elizabeth Sharpnack, daughter of Henry Sharpnack and 
Elizabeth Rice Sharpnack. Her parents were of Welsh and 
English descent. Mr and Mrs Kerr have four children, all 
boys: William Henry Kerr; George S Kerr; Robert O Kerr; and 
Jesse F Kerr. Mr and Mrs Kerr are devoted members of the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr Kerr is a 
Republican, and has been a member of the town council of 
Carmichaels, where he has resided for over twenty five 
years.

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