When James Elliot Kerr was born on 4 June 1862, in Assumption, Christian, Illinois, United States, his father, Amos Kerr, was 31 and his mother, Mary Sophia Roby, was 22. He married Lulu Mae Adamson on 12 September 1886, in Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Elkhorn Township, Lincoln, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 10 April 1937, in Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Lincoln, Kansas, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland, Middle English kerr ‘brushwood, wet ground’ (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed, left-handed’.
Irish: variant of Carr .
Americanized form of German Kehr or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
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