Crawford-Clark County IL Archives Biographies.....Guinnip, James 1859 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  JAMES GUINNIP, boot and shoe dealer, north side of the public square, was born
in Clark County, Ill., February 3, 1859, where he grew to manhood with good
facilities for education; also spent a term in the Terre Haute Commercial
College. He then engaged in farming a short time. In 1882, he commenced his
present business, in partnership with Griffith Brothers. His father, Joseph
Guinnip, was born in Tompkins County, N. Y., December 14, 1814, where he
remained till 1828, when his parents removed to Steuben County, N. Y. At the age
of twenty-two he removed to Erie County, shortly after to Terre Haute, Ind. In
1840, he moved to Clark County, Ill.; bought a farm of eighty acres two miles
north of Marshal and engaged in farming, which he has made a success, and owns a
farm of 280 acres of choice improved lands, together with some valuable property
in Marshal He was married in Seneca County, N. Y., to Miss Sabina Smeed, who
died in September, 1856. He was married in Clark County to Ellen Crane, by whom
he has seven children.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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