Rev. George Guild

            REV. GEORGE GUILD was born in Hartford, Conn., June 9, 1812, and is a son of Jeremiah and Martha (May) Guild, natives of New England, and of English descent. Jeremiah Guild was a tanner, and, in 1816, emigrated to Butler County, Ohio, where he died in 1820, followed by his wife the next year, leaving a family of eight children. Our subject being an orphan at nine years, was put out to a farmer, by whom he was so maltreated as to compel him to run away when thirteen and apprentice himself to saddletree-making at Cincinnati, and afterward becoming a journeyman in Butler County, Ohio, whence he removed to Wayne County, Ind., in 1836.

    When twenty-one years of age, he experienced religion and likewise the necessity of an education, which induced him to spend all his leisure hours in study in preparation to enter a school in Dublin. In 1838, he was licensed to preach by the M.E. Church, and on the 8^th of April, he married Sarah Hull, of Highland County, Ohio, born May 7, 1819, a union blessed by ten children, but four of whom now survive –George S., James R., Thomas M. and Daniel H. In 1840, he commenced teaching, and, in 1843, was ordained and given a circuit embracing five counties. In 1849, he built the first church in Rensselaer, and did arduous work in many stations for many years.

    In 1853, he located on land entered in 1850, comprising 120 acres. In 1872, he was superannuated, having preached more than forty years. Charles L. Guild, son of our subject, enlisted in 1861 in the Ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he proved a gallant soldier, being wounded in the head at the battle of Shiloh, which caused his immediate death. He was buried by his father in the Independence Cemetery.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana by F.A. Battey & Co., 1883, page 575.