JAMES H. GUERNSEY

    James H. Guernsey was born in Upper Canada May 9, 1836; his father
was a farmer, and when James was about eight years old came to the
United States and located in Porter Township, Porter Co., Ind., where
he purchased 160 acres of Government land, for which he paid $1.25 per
acre, and began farming. James H. Guernsey worked on the land of his
father during the summer, and during the winter attended school, so
continuing until he was twenty-one years old. On February 16, 1861, he
was married to Elizabeth Hurlburt, daughter of Jacob and Susan Perry
(Sheffield) Hurlburt, to which union were born eleven children-Griffin
John, Hosea B. (deceased), Almona, Craig, Buerton, Susan S., Ada M.,
Emma and Ella (twins), and Hazzard. In 1863, Mr. Guernsey came to this
township and purchased eighty acres, with some improvements and a log
house; he now has 288 acres, with good frame house and outbuildings; he
is a general farmer and stock-raiser, and has some fine imported sheep;
he is a liberal Democrat, also a member of M. N. McClelland Lodge, No.
357, A., F. & A.M.

Source- Counties of Porter and Lake, 1882.
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