Anderson Martell Guerin

NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Anderson Martell GUERIN, whose livery business is the leading one of the kind in Morris county, was born in Morristown, New Jersey, September 28, 1865. He is the son of Roderick and Caroline (NORRIS) GUERIN. Roderick GUERIN was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, and was in the butcher business. He died in Kansas. His mother, Caroline (NORRIS) GUERIN, was also born in Somerset county, New Jersey, and died when her son Anderson M. was a child of five years of age. There were three children born to them but one, Mary, is dead, the other son, Charles H., living now in East Orange. A grandmother, Caroline (NORRIS) MITCHELL, is still living in Morristown at the age of eighty-two years.

Mr. GUERIN was first sent to the public schools of Bernardsville, later going to those of Morristown. He began in business at the age of fifteen years obtaining then a position in a crockery store with J. B. Stevens, and remaining with him for two years. He then saw an opening in the drug business, and in this he was interested for ten years until, in 1890, he established the present livery business which goes under the name of A. M. GUERIN and is probably the most important in Morris county. Mr. GUERIN is also engaged in the automobile business conducting a garage and sales agent for the Franklin, Brockway, and the International Harvester, light trucks. He also conducts a high-class harness establishment with a full stock of horse equipment. He is a man who enjoys a good piece of horseflesh, keeping in his stables always several good track horses. He organized the Morris County Road Drivers’ Association. He has also been director for many years of the Road Horse Association of New Jersey the largest association of the kind in the world. Mr. GUERIN is a Republican in his political convictions, and has taken an active part in the affairs of the party. He was for a time a member of the Republican county committee. He is an Elk, and is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.

He married, in Morristown, July 13, 1890, Josephine, daughter of Edward W. and Kate (VAN GILDER) PRUDEN, the former a pioneer in the coal business in Morristown, and both representatives of the old stock of the region. Mr. and Mrs. GUERIN have two children: Edward Pruden, born December 5, 1891, a student at Stevens Institute, Hoboken; and Helen, born May 13, 1896, died June 11, 1913.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)