About Kerr

Andrew W. Kerr was born in Pennsylvania in 1828. in 1858 he and his wife were the first teachers in

Jackson's recently completed brick school.

 

I haven't located him and his family in the 1860 census, but by 1870 his wife was no longer listed in his

household, only his 2 daughter Ida Bell, 12 years old, and M. E. Kerr, 9 years old.

 

He ran for school superintendant and lost to S. G. Briggs in 1871.

 

In the 1880 census  only Ida was living with him. They are living in Plymouth, Amador County. and he is still a teacher.

 

In 1881 Ida Bell Kerr married Diovol Benedetto Spagnoli after his wife died in childbirth. He was educated in Italy

and France and and went into the law offices of Judge Briggs soon after his arrival in 1854. He was elected

County Clerk and recorder in 1869. In 1895 he was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme

Court and was made U.S. Consul at Milan, serving for three years. They had two children, Ernest and

Roma. Click on Kerr documents, below for a full biography of D. B. Spagnoli.

 

In 1900 Ida Bell Spagnoli and her husband were living in Jackson with their combined families.

 

In 1920 she is living with her son, Roma, in San Francisco.

 

In 1930 she is still living in San Francisco, age 72. She is listed as mother-in-law to head of household,

perhaps a daughter from D. B. Spagnoli's first marriage.