Guy Manning Kerr

Guy Manning Kerr, No. 162, was born at Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Mo., May 20, 1870. When five years of age, the family moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., where they resided for about eighteen years. His early education was received at Cutler Academy and Colorado College. At nineteen years of age he went to Mexico, as assayer in a silver lixiviation works, at San Juan de Guadalupe Duranga, where he remained some thirteen months. He was afterwards employed in the same capacity in mines in southern Mexico.

When about twenty-one he decided to continue the study of chemistry, and for that purpose spent fours years at the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he graduated October 15, 1895, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

After graduation, he returned to America, and was employed in gold mines near Helena, Mont. Since September, 1898, he has become a resident of Glen Falls, N.Y. On April 5, 1899, he married Miss Bertha Thompson, of New Bedford, Mass.