Lake-La Porte County IN Archives Biographies.....Guyer, James 1841 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JAMES GUYER.

    Among her native sons that Pennsylvania has furnished to Lake county is
numbered James Guyer, now engaged in the livery business in Hobart. He was born
in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, his natal day being December 30, 1841, and he
is the eldest son of Andrew and Mary Ann (Royce) Guyer, who came to the west
when James was but eight years of age. They settled in Calhoun county, Michigan,
and he was reared upon the home farm, working in the fields during the summer
months, while in the winter seasons he attended the public schools. At the age
of eighteen he left the parental roof, in order that he might earn his own
living and went to Branch county, Michigan, where he learned the trade of
brick-making. He was there employed at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war
in 1861. He had watched with interest the progress of events in the south, and
when an attempt was made to overthrow the Union his patriotic spirit was aroused
and he enlisted as a member of Company H, Eleventh Michigan Volunteer Infantry,
as a private. He thus served for about two years, and was then honorably
discharged on account of disability, but in the meantime he had participated in
some important battles.

    After being mustered out Mr. Guyer returned to Branch county, Michigan,
where he remained for about six months, and then went to Nashville, Tennessee,
where he was employed by the government as a painter, working in that way until
1865. He then again came to the north, locating at Cold-water, Michigan, where
he was engaged in the manufacture of brick for about two years. He next located
at LaPorte, Indiana, where he conducted a similar industry, and since that time
he has traveled quite extensively, visiting Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri,
Illinois and various parts of Indiana. He came to Hobart in 1872 and established
a brick manuafcturing industry, doing the first work where the National Fire
Proofing Company plant is now located. He was there for about four years, after
which he went to Lowell, Indiana, and afterward to Michigan. Later he returned
to this state and in 1893 he again came to Hobart, where he established the
livery barn that he now conducts.

    In 1869 Mr. Guyer was married to Miss Sarah Ann Hutchins, who was born in
Ohio, and there are four children of this union: Mary, deceased; Burton;
William; and Philip, who has also passed away. Mr. Guyer is connected with
Hobart Post No. 411, G. A. R., of which he is now commander, and he is likewise
a faithful follower of the teachings of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to
Earl Lodge No. 357, F. & A. M. In his political views he is a Democrat. He is
quite well known in this county, and he possesses many traits of character which
have gained for him the regard and friendship of his fellow-men.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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