Aka: Maurice Kerby
Son of:
Thomas & Nancy Kerby
Husband of:
Marianna Hatchett
Married:
January 13, 1859
Maurice Kirby was a distinguished educator in Kentucky. He was orphaned at the age of 14, adopted by Dr. Ezra Keller and his wife Caroline, and went to college at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, founded by Dr. Keller. He married the young widow Marianna in 1859. He and his wife traveled with his brother-in-law John Dillard Collins and family on a trek of several years during the Civil War from Henderson, KY south through Arkansas to Louisiana, ahead of the Union Army, returning to Henderson at the end of the war. As described in biographical notes written by his niece Rosalie A. Collins, he taught in schools in Arkansas and Texas during the trek. After returning to Kentucky, he founded a female teaching academy in Henderson, was Professor at the State College in Lexington, and then Principal of the Louisville Male High School, then operating also as a college.
Son of:
Thomas & Nancy Kerby
Husband of:
Marianna Hatchett
Married:
January 13, 1859
Maurice Kirby was a distinguished educator in Kentucky. He was orphaned at the age of 14, adopted by Dr. Ezra Keller and his wife Caroline, and went to college at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, founded by Dr. Keller. He married the young widow Marianna in 1859. He and his wife traveled with his brother-in-law John Dillard Collins and family on a trek of several years during the Civil War from Henderson, KY south through Arkansas to Louisiana, ahead of the Union Army, returning to Henderson at the end of the war. As described in biographical notes written by his niece Rosalie A. Collins, he taught in schools in Arkansas and Texas during the trek. After returning to Kentucky, he founded a female teaching academy in Henderson, was Professor at the State College in Lexington, and then Principal of the Louisville Male High School, then operating also as a college.
Aka: Maurice Kerby
Son of:
Thomas & Nancy Kerby
Husband of:
Marianna Hatchett
Married:
January 13, 1859
Maurice Kirby was a distinguished educator in Kentucky. He was orphaned at the age of 14, adopted by Dr. Ezra Keller and his wife Caroline, and went to college at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, founded by Dr. Keller. He married the young widow Marianna in 1859. He and his wife traveled with his brother-in-law John Dillard Collins and family on a trek of several years during the Civil War from Henderson, KY south through Arkansas to Louisiana, ahead of the Union Army, returning to Henderson at the end of the war. As described in biographical notes written by his niece Rosalie A. Collins, he taught in schools in Arkansas and Texas during the trek. After returning to Kentucky, he founded a female teaching academy in Henderson, was Professor at the State College in Lexington, and then Principal of the Louisville Male High School, then operating also as a college.
Son of:
Thomas & Nancy Kerby
Husband of:
Marianna Hatchett
Married:
January 13, 1859
Maurice Kirby was a distinguished educator in Kentucky. He was orphaned at the age of 14, adopted by Dr. Ezra Keller and his wife Caroline, and went to college at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, founded by Dr. Keller. He married the young widow Marianna in 1859. He and his wife traveled with his brother-in-law John Dillard Collins and family on a trek of several years during the Civil War from Henderson, KY south through Arkansas to Louisiana, ahead of the Union Army, returning to Henderson at the end of the war. As described in biographical notes written by his niece Rosalie A. Collins, he taught in schools in Arkansas and Texas during the trek. After returning to Kentucky, he founded a female teaching academy in Henderson, was Professor at the State College in Lexington, and then Principal of the Louisville Male High School, then operating also as a college.
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