Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Guckien, Sylvester 1859 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

SYLVESTER GUCKIEN.

   To the Emerald Isle much credit is due for its share in contributing to the
good citizenship of America, and upon whole loyalty we could depend in
emergencies. Our adopted citizens from that country have always been ready and
willing to serve when the public demanded. To no country is due more praise for
the able manner in which they have adapted themselves to new conditions in a
strange land.

   Sylvester Guckien, farmer at Camden, Indiana, was born on May 7, 1859, on the
farm where he now lives, in Washington township, Carroll county. He is a son of
Sylvester and Catherine (McGreevy) Guckien. He grew to young manhood on his
father's farm, and obtained his education at the public schools. He attended
school during the winters and helped his father with the farm work in the summer
months, until he was seventeen years of age, after which he continued to follow
farming. He has been very successful at this occupation, having acquired a tract
of two hundred acres of fine farm land. Politically, Mr. Guckien has always
given his stanch support to the Democratic party, in which he has been an active
worker, and has shown a progressive spirit and a deep interest in those things
which stood for the advancement of the welfare of his township, especially on
the subject of good roads. His personal interest on the farm has been directed
to the breeding of registered Hereford cattle.

   Sylvester and Catherine (McGreevy) Guckien, his parents, were born in
Ireland, the former coming to the United States at the age of fourteen years,
and the latter at a much younger age. Both settled in Butler county, Ohio, where
they were married, and came to Carroll county, Indiana, in 1850, remaining in
Washington township until their death. Mr. Guckien was industrious, thrifty and
energetic, and was the owner of four hundred acres of good farm land at his
demise. He was a Democrat, and was always prominent in local politics, showing a
progressive interest in his township. Mr. and Mrs. Guckien were the parents of
ten children, eight of whom were living in 1915—William, Michael, Sylvester,
Cornelius, Winifred, Catherine, Mary and Ellen.

   On October 10, 1893, Sylvester Guckien was united in marriage to Mary E.
Hayes, who was born at Hamilton, Ohio, May 12, 1869, daughter of William and
Anna Hayes, and who was educated in the schools of that city and at St. Mary's
Academy. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Guckien settled on the farm where
they now reside and where they are very pleasantly and comfortably situated.
They have six children, Adrienne, Hayes, William, Daniel, Charles and Eleanor.
Their eldest daughter, Adrienne, is unusually bright, having attended Indiana
University, after which she was engaged as a teacher in the Deer Creek high
school and enjoys the distinguished honor of being the youngest high school
teacher in the state of Indiana. She is regarded as a teacher of much ability
and is prominent in state-wide educational affairs. Hayes Guckien, the eldest
son, is also a very promising student and attends the Deer Creek high school.
William and Daniel Guckien also are students in the high school, while the
younger children, Charles and Eleanor, are still pupils of the grade schools.

   Mr. and Mrs. Guckien occupy a warm place in the hearts of the people of the
community in which they reside and their interesting family is a credit and an
honor to them, as well as to their home township.


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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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