Polk County, Missouri Biographies - W. H. McGUIRE
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri; 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 676, 677
Polk County Biographies Section

    W. H. McGuire, merchant at Brighton, is the son of Michael
and Sarah (Deaton) McGuire, natives of Tennessee and Virginia,
respectively.  The father was born in 1821, and is of Irish 
descent, as his great-grandfather came from the Emerald Isle.  
The mother was born in 1823, and moved with her parents to McMinn
County, Tenn., where she met and married Mr. McGuire.  Afterward
they remained in Tennessee until 1850, when they came to Polk 
County, Mo., and here the father still lives.  The mother was 
killed by a pistol shot, in 1868, and since then the father has
married again.  By his first wife he became the father of five 
children, four sons and one daughter.  Mr. McGuire came to this
county a poor man, and, though he has no education, he has been
very successful, and is classed as one of the first farmers of
his community.  He is a Democrat in politics.  W. H. McGuire was
born one and a half miles west of Brighton, Polk County, Mo., 
September 9, 1854, was reared on the farm, and educated in the 
common schools.  He remained at home and traded in stock until 
1879, when he opened a general store at Brighton, which he has 
run ever since.  In January, 1886, he became a member of the 
Bolivar Hardware Company, in which he is still interested.  
In January, 1878, he married Miss Mary B. McRoberts, a native
of Tennessee, who bore him five children: Michael, Katie, Ella,
Charley and William Carl.  In connection with his mercantile 
business Mr. McGuire is also interested in farming, and is the
owner of 162 acres, with 149 under cultivation.  He has taken
considerable interest in fine stock, and has two fine black
Spanish jacks, all being imported.  He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and is a Democrat in politics.  Mrs. McGuire is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
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