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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

GEORGE T. GUARD.

   Agriculture has been an honored and a fundamental vocation from earliest
times and has attracted men of energy and ability. By its daily contact with
Nature in out-of-door life, husbandry cultivates those traits of character which
contribute to real manhood and lays the foundation for success in after life.
The boy, therefore, who is born on a farm is fortunate, especially if by reason
of the ambition within him, he makes the most of his opportunities. A striking
example of this statement is found in the biography of the gentleman whose name
appears above. George T. Guard, who has become conspicuous in this locality as a
farmer and stock raiser, lives on his two hundred and sixty-three acres of land
in this township. He was born in Dickson, Illinois, on January 31, 1861.

   Mr. Guard had the advantage of wholesome environment during his early life,
for his father, Rev. John L. Guard, was a minister and his mother was a
self-forgetting, pious woman. She was, before her marriage, Anna Mary Gable.
Rev. John L. Guard, who was born in Stevens City, Fredericks county, Virginia,
which is in the Shenandoah valley, came west alone after his father's death,
which occurred when the lad was eighteen years of age. At that time a Lutheran
college was conducted at Springfield, Illinois, which sent agents to the East.
One of these agents interested John in the work of the school, with the result
that the young man came west and entered the college with a view to becoming a
minister. He studied hard, and during the school term worked at the carpenter's
trade in vacations. After seven years of careful preparation for his life's work
he was graduated and entered the ministry at Dickson, Illinois. After a
pastorate of nearly four years, he moved to Pennsylvania Ridge, and there for
six or seven years conducted what is called a double charge. He lived there
during the Civil War, and it was there his children were born. He then lived in
Kickapoo, Illinois, and when George T. was nine years of age the family moved to
Indiana, that being in June, 1870.

   They then moved to Camden, Indiana, where Reverend Guard was in charge of a
church for eight years. He then, according to the custom, was sent to a number
of different charges, these including churches at Camden, Flora, Deer Creek, Mt
Pisga, Clymers, Ebenezer and Swamp. At Camden, Deer Creek, Clymers and Ebenezer
he built new churches. At the end of a useful and worthy career he passed away
in October, 1895. The five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Guard have lived such
lives as to reflect credit upon the precept and example of their good parents.
Ida Margaret became the wife of Dr. C. E. Shull, of Logansport; George T., the
subject of this sketch, became a prominent farmer; John W. is a hardware
merchant in Logansport; Rev. William L., of Tippecanoe City, Ohio, is prominent
both in the ministry and in statesmanship, having served for two terms in the
Ohio state Legislature, and Charles H., who is a prominent citizen of Camden,
Indiana.

   George T. Guard was early thrown upon his own resources. At seventeen, up to
which time he had lived at home, he bade farewell to the family circle and
started away to earn his own livelihood. For two years he was an employee of
farmers, and then drove a team in Logansport. He then went west and stayed three
or four years.

   On November 27, 1890, George T. Guard was married to Mary E. Fonts, a
daughter of Solomon Fonts, who was a pioneer of this county. Born in Ohio, Mr.
Fonts came to Indiana with his parents when but a small child. After their
marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Guard set up housekeeping on the farm which is now their
home. Mr. Guard began farming on one hundred and sixty acres, which he improved
and increased until he now has two hundred and sixty-three acres. While he
raises a large quantity of stock, he has not dealt in registered or purebred
cattle. To him and his wife three girls have been born, these being Margaret,
Helen and Edith, all of whom are at home.

   Mr. and Mrs. Guard have been deeply interested in church work, and their
influence in the Deer Creek Presbyterian church, of which they are members, has
been very great. Mr. Guard has been a deacon and an elder in this church for
nearly seven years. He is an honored member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge No.
346, at Young America. Mr. Guard is a Republican in politics, and has been for
ten years on the advisory board of the township and has filled the unexpired
term of supervisor.

   George T. Guard is considered one of the progressive farmers of this
locality, and deserves commendation for the fact that he is practically a
self-made man. He and Mrs. Guard have many warm friends in the community, who
value them for their true worth. In his liberality toward the church and in his
service to the good of the community, giving both of his means and time, Mr.
Guard has honored the memory of a father whose whole life was given to the
up-building of God's kingdom on earth, and a mother whose happiness consisted in
serving her God and ministering to the happiness of her husband and children.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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