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ing family, realizing how they would miss 
his kindly banter and words of wisdom. 
His friends and neighbors were all there, 
and many were the kindly words I heard 
spoken of his lovable character and his 
kindly charity. 
I am told that he realized that he could 
not live long and that he was fully recon¬ 
ciled but the end came very suddenly and 
without warning, and his wonderful brain, 
worth far more than any millions he may 
leave behind him, was stilled forever. 
The world needs the man who says: “I 
can”— 
Not the man who says “I might.” 
There are things to do, and it’s up to you 
To do ’em and do ’em right. 
The big prize goes to the man who knows 
And really knows he knows— 
It’s a long hard run 
But when all is done, 
It’s the record of deeds that shows. 
There is another verse that I like to 
couple with the name of William Chase 
Temple: 
i 
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done 
But he with a smile replied 
That maybe it couldn’t but as for him, 
He’d never be sure till he’d tried. 
His last trial is over. May he rest in 
peace is the wish of one friend who loved 
him. 
DR. GEORGE KERR 
Doctor George Kerr, who passed away 
at his summer residence, Lavallette, New 
Jersey, Aug. 12, 1915, was born near Mc- 
Connellsburg, Bedford County, Penna., 
Jan. 9, 1841. 
Dr. Kerr attended for a time Elk Ridge 
public school in East Nottingham. Took 
a three-years course at New London 
Academy, graduating as valedictorian of 
his class in i860. 
In 1862 he graduated from Eastman’s 
State and National Business College lo¬ 
cated in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 
1864 graduated in medicine from the 
University of Pennsylvania. Received 
his Ph.D. in 1872 from the same uni¬ 
versity. 
Soon after Dr. Kerr’s graduation in 
1864 he was appointed assistant surgeon 
in the U. S. army. After the war he 
practiced his profession in Newburg, N. 
Y., Omaha, Nebraska, and Philadelphia, 
Pa. 
Dr. Kerr was the founder of Lavallette, 
a seaside resort on the New Jersey coast. 
It was fitting that he should end his days 
in the place over which he had spent so 
much thought and energy. However, 
wherever he was located the profession of 
healing was his main thought. 
On February 1, 1893, Dr. Kerr married 
Miss Caroline L. Trout of Philadelphia, 
who survives him. 
For the past twenty-two years Doctor 
and Mrs. Kerr have spent the winters in 
Florida occupying their Lavallette cottage 
in the summer. I do not know what year 
he joined the State Horticultural Society 
and what year he became vice-president. 
His parents, John A. Kerr, born in 
Gettysburg, Pa., and Eliza Jane Hutch¬ 
inson Kerr, daughter of James Hutchin¬ 
son, Esq., East Nottingham Township, 
Chester County, Pa. 
