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J. J. KERR, Gridley; was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Dec. 27, 1850; he is a son of Thomas Kerr, now of Waldo Township, Livingston Co.; when he was 15 years old, he accompanied his parents to the United States, having been, for the two years before that, engaged as a clerk in a wholesale grocery house in Aberdeen; after coming to Illinois, he remained on the farm five years, then entered the office of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Co. in Chicago; after remaining there four months, he returned to Gridley and entered the employ of Boies & Breese; he continued with them fifteen months, after which he entered into partnership with D. L. Hoover, in the drug business; in this he continued until December, 1877; the summer of 1878 he spent in Europe, traveling quite extensively in England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany, and returning in December, 1878, since which time he has not been in active business. He was married May 3, 1877, to Miss H. M. Hartley — a daughter of William Hartley — late of El Paso, Ill.