History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages 748, 749

    Theo. L. Kerr, editor and proprietor of the Jerico Springs
Optic, was born in Newark, N. J., in 1854, and is the youngest
of four children born to Joseph and Jane (Hopkins) Kerr, both
of whom were born in Sussex County, N. J., the former in 1819,
and the latter about 1825.  They are now residing in Newark, 
and are hale and hearty old people.  The father is a printer 
by trade, and as early as 1850 published the Temperance Advocate
in Newark, and is now the proprietor of a job printing office
in that city.  Here it was that the immediate subject of this
sketch, Theo. L. Kerr, received his education, and in his youth
learned the printer's trade of his father, afterward working
in different offices.  In 1877 he went to Stafford, Kan., and
for a short time edited the Stafford Citizen. He then gave up
this work, and went to Arkansas, but, after tilling the soil
for a short time near Little Rock, he was employed on the Little
Rock Gazette, and at the end of six months came to Jerico Springs,
and March 30, 1888, the first copy of the Jerico Springs Optic
was issued.  The paper is published in the interest of the
Democratic party, is bright and newsy, and some useful information
can always be gleaned from its columns.  IN 1876 he was married
to Miss Hannah Myers, who was born in Bradford County, Penn., 
in 1856, and is a daughter of Jacob and Hilah Myers.  He and wife
are the parents of four children.  He is a member of the 
Typographical Union, and his wife belongs to the Christian Church.

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages 748, 749

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