Dr. Edwin Fernando and Marguerite Guyon
Information comes from the History of Bear Lake Pioneers by Mrs. W S Guyon
Edwin Fernando Guyon was born 7 Nov 1853 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Leon John Guyon and Emily Louise Shattuck. Leon Guyon had come from Jersey City to New Orleans at an early day as a contractor and bridge builder. Edwin was but an infant when his father disappeared and no trace of him was ever found. In 1855, his mother and he moved to California where she married again. Deciding to seek his fortune in the north, the new husband left the family at Sacramento California, and went up to British Columbia, where se secured a contract from the captain of a British ship to supply his vessel with a cargo of mast poles. He proceeded to fill the order, but just about the time he was ready for the delivery of the new products of his labor, a heavy storm set in the ship was destroyed and the labor of a year went for naught. In the meantime his family joined him in the north.
After this disaster, the returned to Sacramento, but shortly afterward removed to Portland Oregon, which was then a mere village and where he attended school. His stepfather then bought some Indian cattle and began ranching at Pilot Rock, Oregon, and Edwin was taken there to assist in the farm work.
His life, for the most part, passed in this manner and about twenty-five years of age, when his mother died 20 Mar 1875 at Pilot Rock Oregon, at the age of 49 years of age. He then bought a few cattle, going in debt for most of them, and took up ranching independently. He followed it for a short time and succeeded so well that at the endof his first year, he was practically free of debt.
In the meantime, being a studious person and intent on securing a good education, Edwin pursued studies at Walla Walla College in Washington graduating in 1875 with a Bachelor of Arts. On 6 July 1879 he married Marguerite Matilda Catherine Jones at Pilot Rock. Also in 1879 he decided to follow medicine attending the University of Cincinnati until 1891 when he graduated March 5. He took another year of post graduate work in Cincinnati, then moved to Pendleton Oregon, to commence the practice of his profession.
He moved to Montpelier 28 Feb 1896 and continued here until 1900, when he was appointed assistant surgeon for the Diamond Coal Company in Diamondville Wyoming, and from 1897 to 1903 he was assistant surgeon for the Oregon Short Line Railroad.
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Montpelier Examiner, Saturday, 14 March 1896, page 1
Dr. E F Guyon has concluded to locate with us. He comes well recommended and no doubt will build up a good practice here. The Doctor can be found at Riter Bros. Drug store. See his card in another column.
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Montpelier Examiner, Friday, 4 May 1900, page 1
Dr. E F Guyon, of Montpelier Idaho, a medical man of more than ordinary ability will locate in Diamondville, as assistant to Dr. Gamble. The Doctor stands very high in the profession and will be a valuable addition to the medical fraternity of Wyoming. He is a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati; is an active member of the Idaho Medical Exchange Board and author of several important contributions to medical literature.
The people of Diamondville are to be congratulated that so able and noted a medical man is to locate among them soon. His family will not be here for the present. Diamondville News
The above will come as a surprise to Dr. Guyon's many friends in this city. Dr. Guyon has been in Montpelier for about three years and during that time has acquired a large practice and made many friends. He is a gentleman in every particular and ranks with the most able men in the country as a physician and surgeon. His removal from this city will be cause for keen regret and besides is a distinct loss to the town.
In Dr. Guyon and Dr. Hoover, the people felt that they had access to the most skillful and learned physicians in the west. The removal of either of them is like taking a link out of the everyday life of Montpelier, as neither could be easily replaced in the confluence of the people.
Sorry we are to lose Dr. Guyon and his estimable family, we congratulate Diamondville on its good luck, as such people are acquisitions that any city may well be proud of the chance to welcome. May the Doctor meet with unbounded success in his new home, for he deserves it, it is the wish of the Examiner and hosts of friends in this part of Idaho.
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Children of Edwin Fernando Guyon and Marguerite Matilda Catherine Jones
1. Maude Elizabeth Guyon b-27 Mar 1880 at Pilot Rock
Oregon; d-27 June 1956 in Salt Lake City; br-Salt Lake City Cemetery; m-Dallas F
Brown 28 June 1905 in Salt Lake City
2. Lafayette Madison Guyon b-4 June 1890 at Pendleton Oregon; d-25 Mar 1968 in
Orange Cal.
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Children of Maude Elizabeth Guyon and Dallas Francis Brown
1. Margaret Guyon Brown b-6 June 1906 in Salt
Lake; d-20 Jan 2003 in Salt Lake
2. Edith Maude Brown b-5 July 1907 in Salt Lake
3. Dallas Francis Brown b-29 Mar 1909 in Salt Lake; d-18 Oct 1939 in Salt Lake;
br-Salt Lake City Cemetery
4. Evangel Ruby Brown b-1915 in Nebraska; d-Sep 1975 in Utah; m-Charles Gene
Whall 1 Apr 1934 in Coalville Utah
4. Gail Guyon Brown b-16 May 1918 in Salt Lake City; d-18 Sep 2003 in Bountiful
Utah; br-Salt Lake City Cemetery
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Marguerite Jones Guyon died 25 May 1943 in
Orange Co California, They had divorced by 1903, then in 1903 Edwin returned to Montpelier and married
Effie Myrtle Burke, born 10 Jan 1874, the daughter of John Burke and Mary
Kerr. They married in Montpelier 18 May 1903. In 1907 he was appointed member of the State Board of Medical Examiners.
In 1911 he was appointed the sole representative of Idaho to the convention on
tubercular diseases held at Denver and in 1912 was appointed to the
International Convention on Hygiene and Demography held in Washington DC.
Children of Edwin Fernando Guyon and Effie Myrtle Burke
1. Edwin Fenemore Guyon b-24 June 1905; d-4
June 1998
2. Wendell Shattuck Guyon b-9 May 1907; d-26 Mar 1979 in Montpelier; br-Montpelier
City Cemetery
3. Royal Chatterson Guyon b-15 June 1909; d-6 Feb 1993 in Montpelier; br-Montpelier
City Cemetery
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Politically he was a Democrat and was chair of the Montpelier City council in 1910 and 1911. In his religious views, he was broad and liberal and as a conscientious member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Possessed of a mind of rare strength and symmetry, well stored with the thrifty study of years, Dr. Guyon achieved much in his calling.
Dr. Edwin Guyon died 8 Jan 1934 and was buried in the Montpelier Cemetery. Effie died 18 Jan 1965 and was also buried in the Montpelier Cemetery.
Dr. Edwin Fernando Guyon 1934 Obituary
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Information comes from the 1899 Illustrated History of Idaho, page 632
Edwin F Guyon, MD, who has become known as county physician of Bear Lake county, Idaho, assistant surgeon for the Oregon Short Line, member of Idaho and Oregon State Medical Associations and of the American National Medical Association and as author of the law to prohibit illegal medical practice in Idaho and co author with Dr. C J Smith of the law ot prevent illegal medical practice in Oregon, is one of the leading physicians in Idaho and is doing much to elevate his profession and augment its usefulness throughout the northwest.
Dr. Guyon began the practice of medicine in Pendleton City Oregon in 1891, and continued it there successfully for five years when his health began to fail and he sought a higher altitude and a dryer atmosphere at Montpelier. The colder climate agreed with him and he regained his health and by the time he had done so he had built up a large and rapidly growing practice in which he has been successful professionally as well as financially.
Dr. Guyon was born at New Orleans, Louisiana, November 7, 1853, of Huguenot ancestors on his father's side who came early in our history from France and settled in New York and New Jersey. John Guyon, his father was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and married Miss Emily Shattuck, a native of St Louis, but a descendant of an old Virginia family, her mother having been prominent at Richmond, socially and otherwise. John Guyon, who was a contractor, built many wharves in the south and died there of yellow fever, when Dr. Guyon was a child. His widow, who married again, died in California in the forty-ninth year of her age.
Mrs. Guyon went to California in 1856 with her second husband and Edwin F was a member of the moving family. The journey was made by the way of the isthmus of Panama. Dr. Guyon was educated in the public schools of California and Oregon and at Whitman College, Washington, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Cincinnati, in 1891.
Politically Dr. Guyon is a Democrat and he wields no uncertain influence in party affairs in the county and state. He is a prominent Odd Fellow, having passed all the chairs in the subordinate lodge and in the encampment and he is a member of the Woodmen of the World. As a citizen he is public spirit and progressive and takes an active and helpful interest in all measures for the public good. he was married in 1879 to Miss Maggie Jones, a native of Missouri and they have a son named La Fayette and a daughter named Maud. Mrs. Guyon is a Baptist. The Doctor was brought up in the Methodist faith.