Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Kerr, W. H. 1855 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

W. H. KERR

[photo] City Residence of W.  H.  Kerr

[photo] Farm Residence of W. H. Kerr

WILLIAM HENRY KERR was born at Toulon Illinois, January 20, 1855. He went with
his parents to Missouri when he was about one year of age and it was in the
latter state that he was raised and received his early education. Mr. Kerr came
to Kansas from Missouri in 1876 and located in Barton County. He first took up a
tree claim and pre-emption in Beaver township, the former being changed to a
homestead. At this time there was but one family in that township which was not
then known as Beaver but was included in another township. Mr. Kerr was married
August 30, 1881, to Miss Florence P. Lindsay of Bunker Hill, Kansas, and they
are the parents of eight children, six of whom are living. One of the children
died in infancy and Albert was killed by lightning

June 29, 1900, when he was 12 years of age. The remainder of the children are:
Mary Belle, who is now Mrs. Clarence Markel; Winifred, who is employed by the
Merrit-Schwier Creamery as stenographer; Ethel Florence, who is a stenographer
and is employed by C. B. Ellis & Co., brokers, of San Francisco; Robert Henry,
who is employed in Great Bend, and Josephine and Alice, who are living at home.
Mr. Kerr has always taken a great interest in his children and they are all well
educated and well known in this part of the state. Mr. Kerr now owns 720 acres
of farm land in Barton County, all of which is being worked by renters. He also
owns considerable town property in Great Bend and 180 acres of land in Texas.
Mr. Kerr is the founder of the Church of Humanity, a society that is gaining
many new members in all parts of the world. The membership roll contains
representatives from forty states in this counttry as well as in Germany and
England. Mr. Kerr is the publisher and editor of the monthly magazine called
"The Truth About God and Life," which spreads the propaganda of the society to
all parts of the civilized world. He is also the president of the society and
devotes a great deal of his time to study and in the preparation of copy for the
magazine. Some time ago he purchased the Morrison hotel building which is one of
the largest in the city of Great Bend, and it is his intention to found a school
in the building to prepare students for taking up the work of spreading the
beliefs of the society. Mr. Kerr is an enterprising and progressive citizen and
is one of the really old timers of Barton County who have remained here through
good and bad years and established a home and raised a family that is a credit
to him and the community in which he lives.

[photo] Great Bend Hotel, Owned by W. H. Kerr



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From "Biographical History Of Barton County" (1912)

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