Leonora Deseret Hamilton Kerr

 

Leonora Deseret Hamilton was born on July 10, 1864 in Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah. She was the daughter of James Lang Hamilton and Mary Ann Campbell. She married William Jasper Kerr on July 17, 1885 in Salt Lake City. Leonora and William had four daughters and two sons.

 

William Jasper Kerr was also married for a time to a second wife, Lois Morehead of Smithfield, Utah. He divorced her after the Woodruff Manifesto of 1890.

 

After leaving the Agricultural College of Utah, William became the president of Oregon Agricultural College in 1907. He remained as president until 1932. He then served as the first Chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education from 1932 until his retirement in 1935.

 

Leonora was a member of the Oregon Congress of PTA's, Alpha Chi Omega, and had organized the College Folk Club in Oregon.

She died on April 16, 1963 in Portland, Oregon at the age of 98.

 

William Jasper Kerr was the president of the Agricultural College of Utah from 1900-1907.