Winfield S. Kerr
Winfield S. Kerr, Republican candidate for senator of the 27th. and 29th. joint senatorial district, is a native of Richland County, having been born in Monroe Township. In his early youth his educational advantages were limited. At the age of eighteen he became a freight brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad in which occupation he lost his arm in a collision in 1872. Afterwards, he began the study of telegraphy, but an inclination to a learned profession led him in another direction and in 1877 he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and took a two years' course in the law department. He was admitted to practice in 1879 and immediately opened an office in Mansfield where he has since resided and has taken a front rank among the attorneys of the city. Mr. Kerr is a close student of analytical mind and grasps the legal points of a case readily and presents an argument logically and eloquently. As a man and citizen, Mr. Kerr is held in highest regard by those who know him best. He is an honorable, capable, manly man whose life in public and private is above reproach and his mental endowments are such as will make him a worthy representative in the state senate of the people of this district.
From The Mansfield Weekly News, September 29, 1887, Vol. 3, No. 44