Theodore Quittar
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1842 - St. Louis, , MO
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• Biography, 1883
History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Containing a History from the ...• Census, Federal, 1910 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co, IA
Theodore Guittar, County Sheriff, was born in 1842, in St. Louis, Mo., and became a resident of Council Bluffs, in 1855. He received his education in the public schools of Council Bluffs, and , in 1877, was elected to the office of Constable. To this office he was re-elected, serving four years during the two terms; he spent two years as Deputy Sheriff under George Doughty, in 1872-73, and also two years in the same capacity under A. L. Kahle. In 1881, he was elected by the Republican party to the office of Sheriff of the county; his majority was forty-one votes; he is no engaged in the discharge of the duties of that office. In 1862, he entered the army as a private in the Second Iowa Battery. During his service he was in many hard-fought battles, among which were the following: siege of Vicksburg, battle of Nashville, Tenn., Jacksonville, Miss., second siege of Mobile, battle of Selma, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., and of Tupelo, Tenn. Mr. Guittar is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and also of Bluff City Lodge, No. 49, I.O.O.F.; he was married, in 1869, to Miss Elizabeth Beecroft, a native of England, and who came to the United States in 1854, with her people, and to Council Bluffs in 1860. They have but one child, a daughter.
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Theodore Guittar, age 67y, born MO; wife Elizabeth Guittar, age 63y, born England, immigrated 1852; dau Eugenia Guittar, age 34y, born IA; father-in-law Henry Beecroft, age 95y, born England, immigrated 1857.
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1. *Elizabeth Beecroft 1
Marriage: 20 Dec 1869 - Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co, IA
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Sources
1. Darrel La Mar Wakley, DarrelLaMarWakley9 (rootsweb.com).