Sacramento County Biographies

GEO. H. KERR

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
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	lives fifteen miles from Sacramento and half-a-mile from Elk 
Grove, his Post Office; was born in Pennsylvania in 1829, and lived there until 
1852 engaged in farming and carriage making; in that year he came to California 
by way of the Isthmus, and lived about a year in Sacramento; he taught school 
the Summer of 1853 at Diamond Springs, El Dorado County; in the Spring of 1854 
he settled near Elk Grove, on his present location, where he has been farming 
and fruit raising; he also manufactures wines, raisins and vinegar; owns one 
hundred and forty acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $3,500. He was 
married in 1864 to Mrs. Mary Springsted, a native of Canada; they have a son and 
a daughter. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.