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LEWIS B. McGUIRE, son of Thomas R. McGuire, whose sketch appears in full below, was born in Stearns County, Minnesota, November 26, 1886. He received an excellent education, on coming to Randolph County, Indiana, with his parents, early fitted himself for the profession of a teacher, and when he found himself fully qualified for the profession, began teaching in White River Township, Randolph County, meeting with such approbation that he followed the vocation for six consecutive terms. His next occupation was that of handling nursery stock for the Spring Hill Nursery Company of Tadmor, Ohio, which business has proved so pleasant and profitable that he still pursues it.

Mr. McGuire stands very high in the regard of the residents of Monroe Township, is an Odd Fellow, and has his degree in the Encampment, and that of Rebecca. He is also a member of Winchester Camp, No. 44, of the Sons of Veterans. In politics he is a republican.

Thomas R. McGuire, retired farmer of Farmland, Randolph County, Indiana, was born in Macksville on May 12, 1833. His parents were Samuel and Eunice (Burns) McGuire, who were among the first settlers of Randolph Country, Samuel McGuire was a native of North Carolina, and was a son of Michael McGuire, whose father was born in Ireland. Samuel was a shoemaker by trade, and died in Macksville in 1868. Mrs. Eunice McGuire was born in New York, and was a daughter of Jacob Burns, who was of Scotch descent. This lady died May 7, 1890, the mother of ten children.

Thomas R. McGuire, the eldest child born to his parents, at the age of sixteen began to learn blacksmithing, and followed that trade for five years. December 25, 1853, he married Maria Driver, who bore her husband twelve children, viz: William R., born May 10, 1856; Samuel, born September 19, 1858; James A., born July 2, 1861; Daniel S., born October 3, 1865; U. S., October 3, 1865, the latter two being twins; Lewis B., November 29, 1866; Anna Mary (Mrs. Rinard), December 3, 1868; Sarah Ellen, January 26, 1871; Martha Jane, January 6, 1875, and three that died in infancy. In 1855, Mr. McGuire and bride removed to Cooper County, Missouri, and engaged in farming until the war of the rebellion broke our, when they returned to Indiana and he enlisted, December 28, 1861, in Company C, Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, took part in all the engagements of the campaign until his term of enlistment had expired, when he re-enlisted, on the 31st day of December 1863, at Culpeper Court House, Virginia. He participated in the battle of Petersburg and the Wilderness, and was wounded, and is a pensioner; he was detailed as a teamster in June, 1862, and drove a team nearly three years; he was badly hurt by a mule falling on him on the 7th day of May, 1863, and was confined twenty-one days in the hospital, and has never yet recovered from his injuries. He was honorably discharged on the 12th day of July 1865, by reason of General Order N. 26, of the Army of Tennessee. After the war Mr. McGuire returned to Macksville, but later, in 1866-67, he passed about eighteen months in Minnesota, but eventually returned to his native place to remain. He is an Odd Fellow and a member of the G.A.R. In politics he is now a Republican, but before the war he was a democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for James Buchanan. He now lives a retired life in Farmland.


Source:
Portrait & Biographical Record
Randolph County, Indiana; 1894
by A. W. Bowen & Co.

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