Harry Henry Kerr

Harry Henry Kerr was born in Tampa, Florida 127 years in 1892 ago to his Father Charles Kerr and Mother Sarah Sands ...

** Interesting events that occurred around the World during Harry's birth year of 1892 included

• On January 1st, 1892 Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.

• On January 15th, 1892 James Naismith's rules for basketball are published for the first time in the Springfield YMCA International Training School's newspaper, in an article titled "A New Game".

• On March 18th, 1892 – Sir Frederick Stanley of the United Kingdom announces his intention to donate the Stanley Cup. ( Hockey fans will know what this is !! )

• On May 22nd, 1892 Dr Washington Sheffield a dental surgeon invents the toothpaste tube.

• On August 4th, 1892 the Father and Stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.

• On November 8th, 1892 Grover Cleveland is elected President of the United States over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.

• In 1892 Andrew Carnegie combines all of his separate businesses into the Carnegie Steel Company, allowing him to gain a monopoly in the United States steel industry.

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Harry Henry was the eldest child born to his Mother and Father. He had a younger Brother, Charley who was born four years later in 1896 and a Sister, Florence enters the World on May 12th, 1900.

Kerr Patriarch Charles supports his family in the booming cigar industry as a cigar maker here in Tampa, Florida.

By 1915 Harry Henry takes a job at the Strand theater as a moving picture projectionist. A career he would embrace for the rest of his life !!

Harry would enlist with the United States Navy on July 25th, 1917 with whom he would serve throughout the duration of the First World War and beyond. Mr. Kerr would be discharged on November 29th, 1919 when he was 27 years old.

Two years after the war's conclusion Harry Henry marries 18 year old Dorothy Glatzeil. Together they would have two Sons during the course of their marriage. Harry Junior and Alton.

In the early 1920's Harry Henry would open a successful but controversial dancehall ... He was brought up on charges multiple times over many years for disturbing the peace and operating this type of business on a Sunday.

Harry Henry Kerr would pass away on November 6th, 1938 when he was just 46 years old.

Harry Henry Kerr... Beloved Husband, Father, and proud United States Navy Veteran of the First World War.