Representative William Jackson Guinn View All Years

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William Jackson Guinn

Benton County

WILLIAM JACKSON GUINN was born on a farm two miles southeast of Belle Plaine, Iowa, September 3, 1852, and died in Belle Plaine June 20, 1934. His parents were Hyrcanus and Melissa (Dinwiddie) Guinn. He was educated in public school in the country and in Belle Plaine High School. He began school-teaching at an early age and taught first in country schools and later in Belle Plaine, in all fifteen terms. He engaged in farming, residing on the Guinn homestead. He held some school and township offices and in 1891 was elected representative and served in the Twenty-Fourth General Assembly. In 1901 he removed to Belle Plaine and entered the real estate and insurance business. He was active in the organization of the Corn Belt Trust and Savings Bank, became its first president and served until increasing age caused him to retire in 1930. Politically he was a Democrat.

House District 49