Turner County, SD Biographies.....Guernsey, J. T. June 25, 1855 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OIF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

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.


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