CARLTON MONROE McGUIRE, M. D.
Dr.
Carlton Monroe McGuire, living retired in Humeston after many
years identification with active professional life, is a
native son of Wayne county, born in Lewisburg, Clay township,
January 22, 1863. His
parents were Josiah and Elizabeth (Axley) McGuire, both
natives of Monroe county, Tennessee, the father born in 1826
and the mother April 5, 1833.
The maternal grandfather, James Axley, was a famous
Methodist contemporary of Peter Cartwright and was fully as
forceful and able a man, although he did not seek notoriety. The parents of our
subject moved from Tennessee to Clay township, Wayne county,
in 1856 and were among the earlier settlers in this section. They took up land,
which the father developed and improved along progressive
lines, dying upon the homestead December 5, 1910. He had survived his
wife for some years, her death having occurred September 2,
1897. In their
family were five children besides the subject of this review: John H., who was
born in Monroe county, Tennessee, in 1852 and who died in Clay
township in 1866; James, also a native of Monroe county, who
died in Clay township in 1872; Frank, who is a resident of
Humeston; Mrs. Mary Wilmot, born June 10, 1866, who is
residing in Clay township; and Marion A., born in 1870, who
died in infancy in Monroe county, Tennessee, where the family
had gone on a visit to the old home.
Dr. Carlton M. McGuire grew up on his father’s farm in Clay township, acquiring his primary education in the public schools of the locality. He later attended Garden Grove Seminary and Central University at Pella, afterward entering Rush Medical College in Chicago, graduating in medicine in 1891. He opened an office for the practice of his profession at Seymour, Iowa, and from there went in 1894 to Walsenburg, Colorado, where he built up a large and representative patronage and where he remained until his wife’s health would not permit of further residence in the dry climate. Leaving Colorado, Dr. McGuire returned to Iowa and took up his residence in Humeston, where he has since remained. He secured an extensive patronage, which he conducted so wisely and ably that in time he accumulated a comfortable competence, which enables him to live retired. On December 1, 1912, he moved into his beautiful modern residence in the southern part of the city and expects to spend the remainder of his years in well earned rest. In addition to his home he owns his father’s farm in Clay township, comprising five hundred and eighty acres of choice land, with two sets of improvements, and also eleven hundred and forty acres of excellent coal land in Colorado, besides stock in the Home State Bank of Humeston.
On
the 29th of May, 1886, Dr. McGuire was united in
marriage to Miss Eva Miriam Calwell, who was born in Clay
township, January 7, 1866, a daughter of James and Miriam
(Elliott) Calwell, natives of Portage county, Ohio, where the
father died in 1886. In
the Calwell family were the following children: Belle, who died at
an early age; Clinton, who resides in Denver, Colorado; Mrs.
Lilly Vanderbeak, of Akron, Iowa; Mrs. Barbara Alexander, of
Leon, Iowa; Willard W., of Belle Plaine, Kansas; Mrs. McGuire,
the wife of the subject of this review; Mrs. Cora Guinn, who
resides in Three Hills, Alberta, Canada; James, of Clay
township; and Joseph, who died in infancy. Mrs. McGuire also
has the M. D. degree and has been a true helpmate to her
husband.
Dr. McGuire gives his allegiance to the republican party and his influence is also given to progressive public measures, although his public spirit never takes the form of office seeking. Fraternally he is identified with Huarfino Lodge, No. 27, A. F. & A. M., of Walsenburg, Colorado; Walsenburg Chapter, No. 27, R. A. M.; Commandery, No. 18, K. T., of Trinidad, Colorado; and El Ge Bel Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Denver. He holds membership also in the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World and the Royal Neighbors and he and his wife belong to Walsenburg Chapter, No. 14, O. E. S. They are both well known in social circles of Humeston, for they are representatives of two of the finest pioneer families in this part of the state. The Doctor is widely read and a liberally cultured man, a deep reader along professional and general lines. This interest has led to his collecting one of the choice medical libraries in the city and he possesses also valuable books of other kinds. The many sterling traits of his character are known to his fellow townsmen, a great majority of whom number him as a friend.