Robert Pollok Kerr

Background

Kerr, Robert Pollok was born on July 19, 1850 in Greensboro, Alabama, United States. Son of John Poole and Sarah (Howard) Kerr.

Education

Graduate William Jewel College, Liberty, Missouri, 1871. (Doctor of Divinity, Washington and Lee, 1887).

Career

Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1874. Pastor Lexington, Missouri, 1874-1877, Thomasville, Georgia, 1878-1882, Independent Church, Savannah, Georgia, 1882-1886, First Church, Richmond, Virginia, 1886-1906, Northminster Church, Baltimore, 1906-1917. Director Princeton Theological Seminary Author: History of Presbyterianism, 1884.

Compiler: Hymns of the Ages, 1901.

Home: Baltimore, Maryland.

Achievements

• Robert Pollok Kerr has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Nellie T. Webb, September 17, 1873.

Father:

John Poole Kerr

Mother:

Sarah (Howard) Kerr

Spouse:

Nellie T. Webb