John  H.  McGuire

The  Shelby  Democrat
February 20, 1879
VOL. 1; No. 37
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from the article, SMILING  SHELBYVILLE!
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John H. McGuire

          The subject of this sketch is one of our old and substantial business men.  He was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in the year 1825, and moved to this State in 1843, being at that time eighteen years old.  He located in Franklin county and commenced learning the wagon and carriage making business.  In 1854, he moved to Greensburg, where he made a specialty of the manufacture of carriages.  He remained there until the fall of 1860, when he moved to Shelbyville, and went into business in the old brick building that occupied the lot where the Hamilton block now stands.  He was burnt out in 1868, losing four thousand dollars, he having no insurance on his stock.  He then bought the building he now occupies of  Joseph Cummins, and started again in his favorite business, where he still remains.  Mr. McGuire has been in the carriage business for the last twenty-five years, eighteen years of that time in this city, and by his untiring energy and honest dealing has succeeded in building up a handsome trade.  He manufactures the best, finest and most substantial carriages, phaetons, shifting top and open buggies, etc. and sells as low as good work and good material (he uses none but the best of everything) will warrant.  He makes a specialty of the Salliday Side Spring Perch Buggy, which is pronounced, by judges, to be the most substantial buggy in the market.  The work turned out at Mr. McGuire's establishment is as good as can be gotten up in any other city, and gives universal satisfaction.  He personally superintends all work turned out, knows just the way it is made and the kind of material used, and warrants everything to be just as he represents it to be.  His place of business is one-half square west of the I.C.&L. R.R. depot on Washington street.     Next biography in the "Smiling Shelbyville" newspaper article, C. P. Hale.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

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