BROWN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: KERR, Stanley O. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, Page 421

        STANLEY O. KERR.  The first position Stanley O. Kerr held after
leaving school was a clerkship in the Ottawa Postoffice. He has given part
of his business career to promoting the sugar beet industry of Northern
Ohio, but for the past year has again been identified with the Ottawa
Postoffice, this time as postmaster.
        He was born in Brown County, Ohio, September 28, 1888, son of
Samuel V. and Cora O. (Dixon) Kerr. His father was born in Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1864, and his mother was born August 31,
1870. Samuel V. Kerr grew up on a farm in Brown County, he and his wife
were educated in public schools there and they were married at Georgetown
in that section of Ohio. They became farmers, lived in Adams County in
Southern Ohio in 1894, and 1907 moved to Ottawa, where they now reside.
They are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Samuel Kerr
is a past grand of the Lodge and a past chief patriarch of the Encampment
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a republican in politics.
There were four children; Stanley O.; William Lynn, of Detroit, Michigan;
Robert D.; and Helen, deceased.
        Stanley O. Kerr spent the first fourteen years of his life on a
farm in Southern Ohio. After coming to Ottawa he attended the public
schools, and in 1908 graduated from business college. Soon afterward he was
made a clerk in the Ottawa Postoffice, and served a year and one half as
deputy postmaster. On resigning he went to Chicago, remained in that city
nine months, and on returning to Ottawa was again in the service of the
postoffice until 1912. In that year he was made agent for the Ottawa Sugar
Company. This company dissolved and went out of business in 1914, and
following that he became a field man for the Holland-St. Louis Sugar
Company of Decatur, Indiana. In 1917, when the Ohio Sugar Company was
organized, he was made its chief agricultural agent, and did field work for
that organization until October, 1922. At that date he qualified as
postmaster of Ottawa, and his previous experience in the office enabled him
to give a most efficient administration from the start.
        On January 17, 1911, Mr. Kerr married Miss Leona Carr. She is a
graduate of the Ottawa High School and subsequently attended the higher
institutions of learning at Ada and Lima and for five years was a
successful teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr are active members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He is prominent in Masonry, being a past secretary of the
Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Council at Ottawa, a member of the Knights
Templar Commandery at Lima, the Valley of Toledo Scottish Rite Consistory,
and both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star Chapter, of which
he is worthy patron. He is also a past noble grand of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows.


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