Biography of 	Guerard, Robert G.;  Savannah, GA;  now Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller February 1998

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Guerard, Robert G., real estate dealer of New Orleans, La., and 
president of the board of commissioners for the port of New Orleans; 
is a native of Savannah, Ga., where he was horn Feb. 3, 1865.  He 
attended private schools at Savannah, and later graduated from Mount 
Pleasant Military Academy, Ossining, N. Y.  As a young man he engaged 
in the rice business at the city of his birth, later removing to the 
city of New Orleans in 1893 end continuing in the same business up to 
the year 1906, at which time he transferred his activities to real
 estate.  During the Spanish-American war he volunteered and served 
as captain of Company M, 2nd Louisiana regiment.

Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, 
Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic 
Form (volume 3), pp. 186-187.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  
Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.