San Benito-Sacramento-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Kerr, James S. 1848 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JAMES S. KERR, a thriving business man of Hollister, California, was born in the
province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, August 29, 1848. He was reared a farmer,
which occupation he followed during his earlier years. In 1862 he came from New
Orleans to Sacramento, California, where he worked a farm for about six years.
He then went to the mines in Calaveras county, and worked at mining for five
years. Thence he removed to Santa Cruz county, where he followed teaming in the
Redwood lumbering district. He afterward went to Los Banos, in Merced county,
and there followed farming for about ten years. From there he came to Hollister,
San Benito county, in 1890, where he bought his present home and other rentable
property, and is successfully engaged in the real-estate business.

  He was married in June, 1889, to Miss Alice Newton, a highly esteemed lady and
a native of Missouri. They have one son, Earl C.

  Mr. Kerr is widely known and respected as a man of unblemished character,
generous impulses and genial disposition, a pioneer of California, and a
business man of push and energy.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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