Excerpt from The New Jersey Coast in Three Centuries, Vol. 3: History of the New Jersey Coast With Genealogical and Historic-Biographical Appendix
Claude V. Guerin was born September 8, 1867, in Jersey City, son of Samuel B. and Evelyn (Kale) Guerin. He is of French ancestry and comes of Huguenot stock. Two brothers having emigrated to escape religious persecution in France, settled in early colonial days in Morristown, New Jersey. Descended from this ancestry, Vincent Guerin, the grandfather, was a thriving merchant at Martinsville, Somerset county, and subsequently at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was an active Republican and held at different times various political offices. He was a constable at Bound Brook; a freeholder of Bridgewater township, and a member of the board of education there for several years. He was a prominent member and elder in the Presbyterian church and left children, Samuel B., and Henry V.
Samuel B., the father, born at Mendham, Morris county, New Jersey, later of Martinsville, was educated in Martinsville and in the public schools of Bound Brook. He was a grocer at New Brunswick until 1861; he served during the Civil war in the sixty days service with the Fifth Pennsylvania Reserves. Removing to New York City in 1864, he carried on the wholesale provision business as a member of the firm of Comstock & Co. for six years. He then on account of ill-health located on a farm in Middlesex county, New Jersey. In 1881 he removed to Asbury Park, where he owns valuable estate. He is an active Methodist and has been a steward in that church for many years. He has but one child, Claude V.
Claude V. Guerin, educated in the public schools in Piscataway township and in New Brunswick, removed with his father in 1882, to Asbury Park, entered the high school there, from which he was graduated in 1886 as valedictorian of his class. He read law four years in the office of Hawkins & Durand, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1890. Beginning practice in 1891 he established a lucrative business, making a specialty of surrogate and probate court business and municipal law.
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