Biographical and historical sketches of early Indiana . ^ work will live, and he will be remembered whenmost of those who were cotemporar\^ with him shall have beenforgotten. yr. n. iciuul ~^.qK&\JiP. MICHAEL CRAWFORD KERR. Michael Crawford Kerr, Speaker of the Forty-fourthCongress, was born near Titusville, Pennsylvania, March 15,1827. His father was a man of moderate means, and the sonwas mainly self-educated. At the age of eighteen he gradu-ated at the Erie Academ}^ and soon after married her who washis wife while he lived. He then emigrated to Kentucky, andfor awhile taught school at Bloom
Biographical and historical sketches of early Indiana . ^ work will live, and he will be remembered whenmost of those who were cotemporar\^ with him shall have beenforgotten. yr. n. iciuul ~^.qK&\JiP. MICHAEL CRAWFORD KERR. Michael Crawford Kerr, Speaker of the Forty-fourthCongress, was born near Titusville, Pennsylvania, March 15,1827. His father was a man of moderate means, and the sonwas mainly self-educated. At the age of eighteen he gradu-ated at the Erie Academ}^ and soon after married her who washis wife while he lived. He then emigrated to Kentucky, andfor awhile taught school at Bloomfield, in that State. Whileteaching at Bloomfield he laid the foundation of his subse-quent career of usefulness and honor. There, in the intervalsof his arduous duties as a teacher, which others would have de-voted to idleness and pleasure, he mastered the fundamentalprinciples of jurisprudence and political philosophy, with which,in after life, both as a lawyer and a statesman, he showed him-self so remarkably familiar. After this he attended the Lou-isville University, where he received the degree of Bachelor ofLaws. In 1852 he removed to New Albany, Indiana, and c
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