California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


KERR, WILLIAM. Was born in Tennessee, September 12, 1832. In 1849 he went to Missouri, where he 
followed farming until the spring of 1853 when he crossed the plains to California with ox-teams, and 
arrived at Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, on the 22d of October of the above year. Here he was engaged 
in farming, sheep raising, clerking, and working in a wagon shop until 1874, when he came to Lake 
County and settled at Upper Lake, where he has since resided. Mr. Kerr married, February 16, 1862, 
Miss Catharine Bradshaw, a native of Missouri. Their children are, Ida, Isaac and Bell. They have lost 
five : Eva, Lulu, Willie, Cora and Nellie.