J. C. Guild

       
  J. C. Guild, inspector of mines for Tennessee, and a member of the firm of Dickerson & Guild, civil and mining engineers and analytical chemists, is a native of Sumner County, Tenn. He was reared and educated in Nashville, and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1883. He was in the service of the States as assistant geologist, during which time he collected all the minerals sent to the Southern exposition at Louisville, and also arranged the mineral cabinet for the State at Nashville, and assisted in collecting the specimens for the same. As inspector of mines he makes semi-annual reports to the State commissioner of agricultural statistics, etc., besides many private reports of individual mines. He located in Chattanooga in 1886, and October of the same year married Miss Mary Orr, a native of Nashville. Mr. Guild is a member of the Greek Society, "Beta Theta Pi." He is also grandson of Jo. C. Guild, author of "Old Times in Tennessee." His father, George B. Guild, an able attorney at Nashville, is a native of Nashville, and was a member of the Legislature in 1872, was also formerly county court clerk of Sumner County. The mother's maiden name was Georgie Thompson. The parents are both living, and our subject, two brothers and one sister are the surviving members of a family of five children.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887