Arthur Gordon Rose Guerard

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Arthur Gordon Rose Guerard was the son of Arthur Rose Guerard and Eugenie Engels. He was the oldest of their seven children and he was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. His father was an American and the family returned to the USA when Arthur was very young, where his brothers and sisters were born. Arthur was a direct descendant of Jacques Guerard of Normandy, France, a French Huguenot who brought his family to Charles Town, SC in 1680. He was the great grandson of Arthur Gordon Rose, President of the Bank of Charleston from 1850-1856 and the great great great grandson of Hugh Rose, 15th Baron Kilravock of Scotland.

Arthur was raised in Charleston, SC and Flat Rock, NC at the home his father built there around 1886, which was called Heidelberg House. His mother died in 1900 and his father remarried and moved to New York. Arthur married Callie Elizabeth Hamilton on July 18, 1902 in Hendersonville, NC and the couple went on to have six children.

Arthur worked for the American Agricultural Chemical Company as a mechanical engineer. He and his family lived in several phosphate mining towns in Florida and settled in Boca Grande, FL, a village on Gasparilla Island, in 1916, where Arthur ran the power plant for the company on the south end of the island. Sadly, he died at his home there at an early age. Family history remembers him as a loving husband and father who could build or fix almost anything and who worked very long hours to support his family. He had light hair, blue eyes, and was very slim.