GUTH, Jacob, GER., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
Section




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JACOB GUTH, NEW IBERIA.--Jacob Guth was born in Germany, 1839, and came
to Louisiana at the age of sixteen years.  His parents, Jacob Guth and
Mary Richard, were both natives of Germany.  They removed to this
country in 1857.  The father died in 1866 at the age of seventy-two
years.  They became the parents of four children, two sons and two
daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch is the oldest child.

Jacob Guth, Jr., spent his school days in Germany, where he received a
fair education.  He learned the trade of wheelwright when young, and for
a while followed this after coming to this country.  For many years he
has conducted a mercantile business at this place.  Since 1887 he has
been a member of the firm of Meyer & Guth.  Mr. Guth served during the
war in Company A, Fourth Louisiana Regiment, under Gen. Gibson.  He
enlisted as a private but after one year was made sergeant.  The latter
two years of the war he served as a musician.  Mr. Guth has twice
married, his last wife being Mary Reynolds.  They are the parents of one
child.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 112.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.