Turner County, SD Biographies.....Guernsey, J. T. 1855 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

J. T. GUERNSEY. Among the leading and highly respected citizens of Parker
township, Turner county, who is also one of the early settlers, is the gentleman
of whom this sketch is written. He has a fine farm of 160 acres located in
section 28, well improved and cultivated, where he carries on the business of
general farming. He was born June 25, 1855, in Cortland county, N. Y., and is a
son of Amasa and Loretta (Copeland) Guernsey, both natives of New York, who came
to Minnesota in 1872 and settled on a farm in Nobles county, where the former
died at the age of fifty-seven years. Mrs. Guernsey still resides on the old
homestead. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are living.

   J. T. Guernsey passed his boyhood in his native county, where he also
acquired a common-school education, and resided until he was seventeen years of
age. In 1873 he accompanied his parents to Minnesota and in 1876 came to Turner
county, Dak. Ter. He entered 160 acres as a homestead when he arrived, and he
has carried on the same ever since. He is a Republican politically and also a
member of Parker lodge No. 2, A. O. U. W.

    Mr. Guernsey was united in marriage October 28, 1885, to Miss Minnie Vaughn,
a native of Bremer county, Iowa, where she was reared. They have been blest with
two children-Lanta and Earl.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.

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