Individual Details
Louis Sayre Kerr Sr
(1872 - 2 Jun 1943)
New York, New York, Marriage Indexes 1866-1937 about Louise V Kissam
Name: Louise V Kissam
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 31 Jul 1895
Marriage Place: Manhattan, New York, USA
Spouse: Louis S Kerr
Certificate Number: 11590
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Marriage Indexes 1866-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.Original data: Index to New York City Marriages, 1866-1937. Indices prepared by the Italian Genealogical Group and the German Genealogy Group, and used with permission of the New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives.
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1910 US Census Manhattan Ward 22, New York New York
page 272 stamped, SD=1, ED=1303 Sheet #11A, 18 Apr 1910
145 West 74th
145/108/191
Lewis A Kerr 38 m once 14 yrs NY NY NY Broker Stocks & Bonds
Louise V 36 m once 14 yrs 2/2 NY NY NY
Kissam L 9 NJ NY NY
Lewis S 8 NY NY NY
And 3 servants
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 22, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1045; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 1303; FHL microfilm: 1375058.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA
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1915 New York State Census NY NY
Blk 3, Election Dist 12, NYC p36
New York Assembly Dist 15 NYCo June 1, 1915
145 west 72 ST
145 Louis Kerr 40 US Broker
Louise 38 US Housekeeper
Samuel 14 US School
Louis 12 US School
+ 3 servants
Source Citation: New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 12; Assembly District: 15; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 36.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: State population census schedules, 1915. Albany, New York: New York State Archives.
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1920 US Census Manhattan Assembly Dist 7, NY NY
West 72 ST 12 Jan 1920 SD 1 ED 553 Sheet 12B
271 Louis S Kerr 47 NY NY NY Broker Stock Exchange
Louise 45 NY NY NY
Samuel K 19 NJ NY NY
Louis S 17 NY NY NY
Source Citation: Year: 1920; Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 7, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1197; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 553; Image: 820.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
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1925 New York State Census NY NY
p 15 1 Jun 1925 W 72 ST
Louis S Kerr 53 US Broker Stock
Louise B 51 US Housekeeper
Louis S 23 US Broker Clerk
+ 2 servants
Source Citation: New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 21; Assembly District: 07; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 15.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: State population census schedules, 1925. Albany, New York: New York State Archives.
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1930 US Census NY NY
Sheet 26A ED 331-393 SD 22 25 Apr 1930 stamped 111
West 72 St
84 Kerr, Louis S 57 marr @23 NY NY NY Broker Stocks
Louise V 56 marr@21 NY NY NY
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll: 1553; Page: 26A; Enumeration District: 0393; Image: 783.0; FHL microfilm: 2341288.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
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1940 US Census Spring Lake Monmouth NJ
SD 3 ED 13-101 17 Apr 1940 Sheet 15B
207/379/R/125
Louis Kerr 68 b in NY Same place in 1935 Stck Broker NY Exchange
Louise 66 NY same place
+ 2 servants
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Spring Lake, Monmouth, New Jersey; Roll: T627_2369; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 13-167.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
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DescriptionSection: Membership, Genealoogies and Revolutionary ServicesSource InformationAncestry.com. The Sons of the American Revolution, New York State Society[database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.
Original data: The Sons of the American Revolution, New York State Society : 1893-94. New York: Republic Press, 1894.
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1880 us census
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: New York City, New York, New York; Roll: 895; Family History Film: 1254895; Page: 417D; Enumeration District: 582; Image: 0236.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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Obituary New York Times 1943
Louis S Kerr
Stock Broker, 71, Member of the Exchange Here 50 years, Dies
Louis S Kerr, a member of the New York Stock Exchange for half a century and senior partner in the brokerage firm of L.S. Kerr & Co., 14 Wall Street, died on Wednesday at his home in the Hotel Vanderbilt, after a long illness. He also had a home in Spring Lake, N.J. He was 71.
Born in New York, Mr Kerr was a son of the late Robert B Kerr and the late Mrs. Serena Bage Kerr. His wife, Mrs. Louise Vanderbilt Kissam Kerr, died in 1942.
He leaves two sons, Lewis S Kerr, Jr of Spring Lake and S. Kissam Kerr of West Trenton, N.J., a brother, Robert Bage Kerr of New York and two grandsons.
Descriptionpmtitle_new: New York Times (1857-Current File)Source InformationAncestry.com. Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
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New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 about Thomas B Kerr
Name: Thomas B Kerr
Birth Year: abt 1835
Age: 74
Death Date: 4 Oct 1909
Death Place: Manhattan, New York, USA
Certificate Number: 29078
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.Original data: Index to New York City Deaths 1862-1948. Indices prepared by the Italian Genealogical Group and the German Genealogy Group, and used with permission of the New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives.
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Name: Louise V Kissam
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 31 Jul 1895
Marriage Place: Manhattan, New York, USA
Spouse: Louis S Kerr
Certificate Number: 11590
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Marriage Indexes 1866-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.Original data: Index to New York City Marriages, 1866-1937. Indices prepared by the Italian Genealogical Group and the German Genealogy Group, and used with permission of the New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives.
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1910 US Census Manhattan Ward 22, New York New York
page 272 stamped, SD=1, ED=1303 Sheet #11A, 18 Apr 1910
145 West 74th
145/108/191
Lewis A Kerr 38 m once 14 yrs NY NY NY Broker Stocks & Bonds
Louise V 36 m once 14 yrs 2/2 NY NY NY
Kissam L 9 NJ NY NY
Lewis S 8 NY NY NY
And 3 servants
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 22, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1045; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 1303; FHL microfilm: 1375058.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA
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1915 New York State Census NY NY
Blk 3, Election Dist 12, NYC p36
New York Assembly Dist 15 NYCo June 1, 1915
145 west 72 ST
145 Louis Kerr 40 US Broker
Louise 38 US Housekeeper
Samuel 14 US School
Louis 12 US School
+ 3 servants
Source Citation: New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 12; Assembly District: 15; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 36.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: State population census schedules, 1915. Albany, New York: New York State Archives.
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1920 US Census Manhattan Assembly Dist 7, NY NY
West 72 ST 12 Jan 1920 SD 1 ED 553 Sheet 12B
271 Louis S Kerr 47 NY NY NY Broker Stock Exchange
Louise 45 NY NY NY
Samuel K 19 NJ NY NY
Louis S 17 NY NY NY
Source Citation: Year: 1920; Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 7, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1197; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 553; Image: 820.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
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1925 New York State Census NY NY
p 15 1 Jun 1925 W 72 ST
Louis S Kerr 53 US Broker Stock
Louise B 51 US Housekeeper
Louis S 23 US Broker Clerk
+ 2 servants
Source Citation: New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 21; Assembly District: 07; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 15.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: State population census schedules, 1925. Albany, New York: New York State Archives.
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1930 US Census NY NY
Sheet 26A ED 331-393 SD 22 25 Apr 1930 stamped 111
West 72 St
84 Kerr, Louis S 57 marr @23 NY NY NY Broker Stocks
Louise V 56 marr@21 NY NY NY
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll: 1553; Page: 26A; Enumeration District: 0393; Image: 783.0; FHL microfilm: 2341288.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
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1940 US Census Spring Lake Monmouth NJ
SD 3 ED 13-101 17 Apr 1940 Sheet 15B
207/379/R/125
Louis Kerr 68 b in NY Same place in 1935 Stck Broker NY Exchange
Louise 66 NY same place
+ 2 servants
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Spring Lake, Monmouth, New Jersey; Roll: T627_2369; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 13-167.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
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DescriptionSection: Membership, Genealoogies and Revolutionary ServicesSource InformationAncestry.com. The Sons of the American Revolution, New York State Society[database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.
Original data: The Sons of the American Revolution, New York State Society : 1893-94. New York: Republic Press, 1894.
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1880 us census
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: New York City, New York, New York; Roll: 895; Family History Film: 1254895; Page: 417D; Enumeration District: 582; Image: 0236.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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Obituary New York Times 1943
Louis S Kerr
Stock Broker, 71, Member of the Exchange Here 50 years, Dies
Louis S Kerr, a member of the New York Stock Exchange for half a century and senior partner in the brokerage firm of L.S. Kerr & Co., 14 Wall Street, died on Wednesday at his home in the Hotel Vanderbilt, after a long illness. He also had a home in Spring Lake, N.J. He was 71.
Born in New York, Mr Kerr was a son of the late Robert B Kerr and the late Mrs. Serena Bage Kerr. His wife, Mrs. Louise Vanderbilt Kissam Kerr, died in 1942.
He leaves two sons, Lewis S Kerr, Jr of Spring Lake and S. Kissam Kerr of West Trenton, N.J., a brother, Robert Bage Kerr of New York and two grandsons.
Descriptionpmtitle_new: New York Times (1857-Current File)Source InformationAncestry.com. Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
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New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 about Thomas B Kerr
Name: Thomas B Kerr
Birth Year: abt 1835
Age: 74
Death Date: 4 Oct 1909
Death Place: Manhattan, New York, USA
Certificate Number: 29078
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.Original data: Index to New York City Deaths 1862-1948. Indices prepared by the Italian Genealogical Group and the German Genealogy Group, and used with permission of the New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives.
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Events
| Birth | 1872 | New York | |||
| Marriage | 31 Jul 1895 | Manhattan, New York, United States - Louise Vanderbelt Kissam |  | ||
| Death | 2 Jun 1943 | ||||
| Burial | Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester, New York, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Louise Vanderbelt Kissam (1874 - 1942) |
| Child | Lewis Sayre Kerr (1902 - 1956) |
| Child | Samuel Kissam Kerr (1900 - 1953) |
| Father | Thomas Barber Kerr (1835 - 1909) |
| Mother | Ann Serena Bage (1841 - 1910) |
| Sibling | Frederick Milbank Kerr ( - 1901) |
| Sibling | Robert Bage Kerr (1863 - 1944) |
| Sibling | Thomas Hamilton Kerr (1865 - 1913) |
Notes
Marriage
There were interesting stories in the newspaper about their marriage. It seems that Louis and Louise grew up as neighbors and eventually eloped because her parents were against their marriage. This caused quite an sensation in the high society circles of New York and New Jersey.From Middletown Daily Argus, Middletown, NY, 2 Aug 1895, Fri, p1
A Special Elopement
New York, Aug 2 - Society was surprised to read in the papers an announcement of the marriage of Louise V. Kissam to Louis Sayre Kerr. The bride is a daughter of Samuel H Kissam, the head of the banking firm of Kissam, Whitney & Co, and is closely related to the Vanderbilt family. The bridegroom is one of the best known of the younger members of the Stock Exchange. The attentions of the young man were not welcomed by the young lady's father, and the affair, therefore, culminated in an elopement.
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From the New York Times, 02Aug 1895, p8
Say It Was Not An Elopment
Marriage of Miss Kissam and Mr Kerr
Met With the Families' approval
Long Branch, Aug 1 - The report of the elopement of Miss Louise V. Kissam and Louis Sayre Kerr, summer guests at the Monmouth Beach Club House is denied by every body in the Club House circle. Miss Kissam and Mr Kerr left the Club House yesterday and were quietly married in New York City.
Acquaintances of the younger people approve of the marriage, as did the parents of the contracting parties. Just why the couple concluded to get married quietly is not known.
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Owing to the prominence of the bride's family, the wedding, the first intimation of which was obtained from the notice of it printed in the newspapers, has aroused the greatest interest among society people. Her father is the head of the banking firm of Kiissam, Whitney&Co, of 17 Broad Street and 331 Madison Avenue. His sister married the late W H Vanderbilt. The bride is the first cousin of Cornelius and William H Vanderbilt.
Louis Sayre Kerr is one of the best known of the younger members of the Stock Exchange. The families live near each other on West 56th St, the Kissams at No 27 and the Kerrs at No 44. When the Kissams went to Long Branch, Mr Kerr followed. They all stopped at the Monmouth Clubhouse.
The Rev Dr Henry Mottet last evening refused to be seen or to make a statement of any kind concerning the marriage of Miss Louise V Kissam to Mr Louis Sayre Kerr.
Mr Kerr's house, at 44 West 56th Street was closed. Only a servant was at the home of Mr Kissam. She said she knew nothing of the marriage, and had not seen the newly wedded couple. She described Mrs Kerr as a very handsome young woman with auburn hair.
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From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2 Aug 1895, Friday, p1
The Groom A New York Banker
A Mutual Friend says the Young
Couple Will be Forgiven by the Parents
Special to the Inquirer
Asbury Park, NJ, August 1 -
The sensation of the season on the North Jersey coast to the elopement from Monmouth Beach yesterday of Miss Louise V Kissam, niece of Mrs William H Vanderbilt, and Louis Sayre Kerr, son of the senior member of Kerr and Company, the New York bankers. The bridegroom, Louis Sayre Kerr, is one of the best known of the younger members of the Stock Exchange. In town the young people lived near each other, but the attentions of the young man were not welcomed by the young woman's father, S A Kissam, of Kissam, Whitney & Co, well-known New York bankers.
Followed Her to the Shore
The Kissams were spending the summer at the clubhouse, Monmouth Beach, and young Kerr became a guest in the same house. Whenever opportunity afforded he was in Miss Kissam's company. The young couple were both missing yesterday morning. It was found that they had left for New York in the 9.26 train. The Kissam family followed soon after. The runaway lovers were married in the afternoon at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, by Rev Henry Mollett, DD.
All Will Be Forgiven
Bunker Horton, of New York, an intimate friend of both the Kissam and Kerr families, said tonight that the runaway marriage would be overlooked without doubt. The Kissams have nothing against young Kerr, but the mother did not want her daughter to marry yet.
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