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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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COLUMBIANA COUNTY,
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BIOGRAPHIES
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
Source:
Mack, Horace -
History of Columbiana County, Ohio
: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers.
Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co.,
1879
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Goshen Twp. -
GEORGE KEELER. In the State of New Jersey, George Keeler first opened his eyes to the light of day on the 4th of October, 1817. When he was eight years old his parents and their family moved to Columbiana County. The family consisted of eleven children, - six sons and five daughters; six of these were born in New Jersey, and five in Ohio. George resided with his parents during the early part of his life, assisting on the farm. He concluded to begin life for himself, his first important transaction being his marriage. In the year 1842 he led to the altar Tabitha, daughter of John and Mary Addis, a very estimable lady. His decision then was to secure a home in the country. His first purchase was one hundred and sixty acres of land, for which he paid thirty dollars and fifty cents per acre. Shortly after this purchase he made the second, of fifty-three acres, at fifty dollars per acre, and the third, of ninety acres, at forty-five dollars per acre; the last purchase is situated in Berlin township, Mahoning Co. He has devoted much of his time to trading and dealing in stock. He now has on his farm about four thousand dollars' worth of cattle and sheep, eighty head of cattle, and three hundred head of sheep. By industry and frugality, coupled with a certain degree of shrewdness, he has managed to secure a comfortable competency, which he now enjoys, with a fair prospect of continuing thus to reap the benefits of a successful career for yet many years. In politics, Mr. Keeler has always been called a Democrat, but he has not always supported the nominations of that party reserving for himself the right to select from the two parties the man he considered best fitted for the position to be occupied.
Mr. Keeler's family consists of eight children, as follows: Markis, Fred, Mary J., Martha, Franklin, Oren, Jobe, and Huldah M. All are living but one, - Markis, who died Apr. 10, 1846, aged three years.
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio - Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 300
Samuel C. KerrSAMUEL C. KERR. This gentleman's ancestors were as follows: James Kerr, his grandfather, was a native of Berkeley Co., W. Va.; emigrated to Allegheny Co., Pa., about 1790, and to Columbiana Co., Ohio, in 1808; died in 1810.
William Kerr, his father, was born in Allegheny Co., Pa., Feb. 12, 1795; came to Washington township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, in 1808. He was in many respects an extraordinary man. Although enjoying but very limited opportunities for school education, he was the business man of his neighborhood, writing letters, deeds, etc. He filled various positions of trust and honor, served thirty-six years as justice of the peace, and nine years as commissioner of Jefferson County. His occupation was that of a farmer. He married, May, 1826, Miss Eleanor Clark. They had ten children - James P., Jane, Samuel C., Hannah, Sarah L., Mary M., Leah B., Delilah C., William M., and Fayette, all living except Fayette, who died Sept. 10, 1850.
On his mother's side his grandfather, Samuel Clark, was a native of Pennsylvania; came to Columbiana Co., Ohio, about 1798, settling on the north fork of Yellow Creek, in what is now Washington township. His mother, Eleanor Clark Kerr, was born in 1805; is residing now in Bush Creek township, Jefferson Co., Ohio.
Samuel C. Kerr, the subject of this sketch, was born Jan. 13, 1831, in what was then Saline township, Columbiana County, now Brush Creek township, Jefferson County. He received only a common-school education, and learned the stone-cutting trade, following that occupation and assisting on the farm in the summer and teaching school in the winter.
He married, Nov. 3, 1859, Miss Frances J. Milner, daughter of William and Lydia Milner, - all natives of Columbiana County. Mrs. Kerr died Dec. 17, 1860, aged twenty years. Mr. Kerr was again married, on the 22d of October, 1858, to Miss Mary Clark, daughter of Stephen and Rachel Clark, natives of Columbiana County, and both born in 1804. Mr. Clark died in 1873; Mrs. Clark in 1878. Mrs. Kerr was an exemplary member of the Presbyterian church for twenty-five years. She died Apr. 22, 1875, at the age of forty-four years. Of this marriage was born one child, John Fayette Kerr, Nov. 22, 1869.
During the war Mr. Kerr was a member of Co. D, 126th Ohio Volunteers, enlisting as a private, Aug. 11, 1862. He was promoted successively to second lieutenant, to first lieutenant, and to captain; was honorably discharged May 15, 1865. He was in the battles of Martinsburgh, Waupon Heights, Brandy Station, Bealton, Locust Grove, Mine Run, and the Wilderness. He also experienced ten months' confinement in the rebel prisons at Macon, Ga., Charleston and Columbia, S. C.
Mr. Kerr was a representative from Jefferson County in the Ohio Legislature four years, from 1866 to 1870. He came to Columbiana County in 1869, since which time he has followed farming. He was elected from Columbiana County in 1877 a representative in the State Legislature for two years; was renominated for the same office. Is a Republican, as shown by his ballot for President, which was cast for Scott, Fremont, Lincoln, Grant, and Hayes. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1856.
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio - Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 264
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