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To give anything like a true sketch of Mr. Kerr's life and labors both in and out of the ministry would fill a good-sized volume rather than a page of this book, as his life has been replete with thrilling, romantic Incidents. The Rev. Mr. Kerr graduated with honors, having received the degree of A. B. from Rawdon College, Leeds, England. He returned at once to the West Indies, where he labored three years. In 1859 he did extensive missionary work in the Turks and Caicos Islands, where, In 1860, he accepted the appointment of Registrar of Births and Deaths. In 1863 he accepted the appointment of Assistant Master of the Government Schools at Grand Turk, and was afterwards appointed Head Master. In 1864 he filled the dual role of Inspector of Schools and missionary, and he passed unscathed through the great hurricane of 1866 which devastated the whole colony, destroyed all the schools and public buildings, as well as 2,500 dwelling houses, including MT. Kerr's personal property. In 1867 he was sent as missionary to Hayti, where, as everywhere, he did good work. In 1873 he was appointed professor in the National Lyceum College for boys and young ladies, where he did effective and extensive missionary work in Cape Hatien, Grande Riviere and Dondon, and maintained considerable, influence with the Haytien officials and authorities. In 1880 he was advanced to the Priesthood of the Episcopal Church of Am erica, by the Rt. Rev. J. Th. Holly, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Hayti. In 1880 he was delegated to represent the Episcopal Church in the United States, and to collect funds for the building of the same in Hayti. On landing in New York, his reception by Bishop Horatio Potter was cordial in the extreme the same by Bishops Littlejohn, of Long Island; T. A. Starkey, of Northern New Jersey; T. M. Clark, of Warwick, R. I.; M. A. De Wolf Howe, Central Pennsylvania; William C. Doane, Albany; Alfred Lee, Primate, Dela-ware; W. B. Stevens, Pennsylvania; H. A. Neely, of Maine; A. C. Coxe, Western New York. He occupied the pulpits of the leading Episcopal Churches in New York--Old Trinity, Grace Church, St. Chrysostom's, St. Paul's, St. Philip's and others. The leading churches, in Brooklyn, Yonkeri3, Newport, R. I., Newark, N. J., Orange N. J., Syracuse, Saratoga Springs, Utica, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Newburg, Poughkeepsie, Sing Sing, Barrytown,,Tarrytown, Philadelphia, Germantown, Ashebourne, Reading, Cheltenham and many others. In 1883 he was sent to Jamaica, W. I., and the,following year he was appointed by the Provincial Synod (under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel-London, Eng.) Rector of the Panama Railroad Church and Arch-deacon of the Church of England Mission, and Chaplain to the Panama Canal Company. In 1889 he made an extensive missionary tour through Central America, where he performed religious services at the opening of the Nicaragua Canal coming in touch with several Indian tribes, and gaining considerable knowledge of their manners and customs in their crude condition. In 1890 he returned to the West Indies and was transferred to the Diocese of Flbrida and made Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Key West, where he has a large parish and congregation and where he is highly esteemed by all classes, white and colored.