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Adam Kerr (Portsmouth, Ohio, mayor and ironworker)

b. 1810 d. 1878

Portsmouth, Ohio, mayor and ironworker. Pennsylvania native. Married to Lucinda Kerr in Scioto County, Ohio, on December 26, 1837. Father of James H. Kerr, A. Eliza Kerr, Isabell Kerr, and Jane Kerr. Member of the Democratic Party. Ironworker in Portsmouth in 1850. Mayor of Portsmouth from 1853 to 1855. Mayor of Portsmouth from 1859 to 1865. Ironworker in Portsmouth in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Scioto County, Portsmouth, p. 220B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Scioto County, Census, p. 450.

Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Greene County Marriages, Film #000292694, p. 235.

N. W. Evans, A History of Scioto County, Ohio: Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio (Portsmouth, Ohio: Nelson W. Evans, 1903), 617-8.

"Adam Kerr (1810-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial #52225399, accessed May 19, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52225399.

Citation

Kerr, Adam. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212602 (November 12, 2026).

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