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Frank G. Kerr, junior member of the above firm [drug firm of McKinney & Kerr], was born in Saline County, Mo., in 1857, and is a son of John and Frances (Gault) Kerr. The father was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in West Virginia in 1825. When young he went to Saline County, where he married and passed his life. He was a machinist, and died in 1868. The mother was born in Virginia and died in 1875. She had three children: Frank G., Mitchell D., groceryman at Gilliam, Saline County, Mo., and James W., partner of Mitchell D. Frank G. was educated in his native county, and at the age of thirteen began to clerk in a drug store at Cambridge, where he remained about four years. He then clerked in Marshall, Mo., eight years, and in 1881 and 1882 took a course of lectures in pharmacy at St. Louis. Having attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1882 and 1883, he graduated from that institution in the latter year, and in April he and P. H. Franklin started a drug store at Marshall, Mo., under the firm name of Franklin & Kerr. In 1885 Mr. Kerr sold his interest to his partner, and in 1886, came to Van Buren. In July, 18886 he became a partner of Mr. McKinney, as above stated. Mr. Kerr is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Hancock in 1880. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity.