Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Butler Co.

E. C. GUEST is a son of John I. and Eleanor (Catlin) Guest, who were 
natives of Connecticut, and married in Albany, N. Y., where Ebenezer C. 
was born Jan. 6, 1815.  Their ancestors were of English and French 
extraction, and immigrated to America some time before the war of 1776.  
E. C. was two years old when his father died, and he remained with his 
mother, attending school when he arrived at a proper age, and assisting 
in the support of his mother.  At the age of twenty he joined a regiment 
of New York Volunteers, with the purpose of joining Papineau in the 
Canadian rebellion, but the regiment was disbanded before entering into 
active service.  Young Guest then joined a "Band of Americans" and 
assisted in the destruction of British vessels: the "Sir Robert Peel" on 
Lake Champlain, and the "British Queen" on Lake Ontario, in retaliation 
for the loss of the "Caroline," which was burned by the British on the 
Niagara River.  Immediately thereafter Mr. Guest engaged with a clock 
manufacturing company, and went on a collecting tour through the South 
and West for two or three years.  He, in 1837, married Esther, daughter 
of Major Joseph Evans, of Barren County, Ky., who died in 1858, leaving 
two children, one of whom is living, one son having died from small-pox 
when a young man.  In 1843 Mr. Guest settled in Russellville, Ky., and 
engaged in the stove and tinware trade; sold out in 1846 and removed to 
Rochester, Butler County, and went into the tobacco trade.  Next year he 
joined the regiment called the "Tennessee Tigers," for the Mexican war.  
The government refused to enlist them, and they returned home.  Mr. G. 
continued in the tobacco trade and in 1853 invested heavily, and through 
a depreciation in the market value, lost about $16,000.  In the next 
year he put his son in business, and sold out his own interest to a 
partner, who went into bankruptcy, by which Mr. Guest lost $8,000.  He 
next (in 1858) suffered by fire the loss of his dwelling, warehouse and 
store, including stock of goods and tobacco.  He immediately rebuilt and 
continued the traffic, to which he added the hoop-pole and stave trade.  
At the beginning of the civil war Mr. Guest took his position in favor 
of neutrality, and consequently could not procure goods for his trade 
and was forced to suspend business.  He then recruited a company of 110 
men for State service, but before he could procure arms for them from 
the government, about eighty of the company joined the Federal army, and 
the company was disbanded.  Mr. Guest, in 1863, married Mary Taylor, of 
Barren County, Ky.  She departed this life in 1872, leaving one son, 
Eben C.  She at her death left her household affairs in charge of an 
aged woman, who was a slave to Robert Todd.  Mr. Guest is a Royal Arch 
Mason, in Russellville Chapter, No. 8, and a Democrat, but was an "Old 
Line Whig."  He believes in free thought in religious matters, and is 
highly respected as a man and citizen by all who know him.

Guest Catlin Papineau Evans Taylor Todd
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CT NY Barren-KY

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