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Title: |
Daniel Kerr Family Papers |
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Repository: |
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722 http://www.wrhs.org |
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Creator: |
Kerr, Daniel Family |
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Dates: |
1812-1879 |
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Quantity: |
0.40 linear feet (1 container) |
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Abstract: |
Daniel Kerr was an early settler and Justice of the Peace of Mentor Township, Ohio. His son, Levi, was a trustee and incorporator of the Case School of Applied Sciences in Cleveland, and a cousin of its founder, Leonard Case, Jr. The collection consists of correspondence, court documents, financial materials, land agreements, a notebook, and miscellany. |
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Identification: |
MS 4117 |
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Location: |
closed stacks |
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Language: |
The records are in English |
The Daniel Kerr Family resided in the Western Reserve during the nineteenth century. Daniel Kerr settled in Mentor Township, Geauga County, (known as Lake County after 1840), as early as 1822, serving as Justice of the Peace. Kerr's son Levi was born in Mentor but spent his teens in the West Indies and Japan. Returning to the United States, he began a dry goods business in New York City, then moved on to purchase a farm in western Pennsylvania. After discovering oil, he sold the property to Standard Oil of Ohio and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to begin a career in banking and business. In 1880, as administrator of his cousin Leonard Case, Jr.'s, estate, he became one of the original five trustees and incorporators of the Case School of Applied Science (CSAS). Upon his own death in March 1885, his sister Laura Kerr Axtell donated $100,000 to CSAS to establish the school's first endowed chair, the Kerr Professorship in Mathematics.
The Daniel Kerr Family Papers, 1816-1879 and undated, consist of correspondence, court documents, financial materials, land agreements, miscellany and a notebook.
The material in this collection pertains primarily to the relationship between father and son, Daniel Kerr's tenure as Justice of the Peace in Mentor, and the distribution of land in the Western Reserve.
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Related Material: Related MaterialThe researcher should consult the manuscript card catalog for vertical file items relating to Daniel Kerr and Laura Axtell Kerr; MS 1200 Elisha Whittlesey Papers; MS 1529 Elisha Whittlesey Papers, Series II; and MS 4115 Samon B. Axtell Family Papers.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4117 Daniel Kerr Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.
Gift of Karl O. Thompson.
Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1987.