Guerard, Robert G.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Guerard, Robert G., real estate dealer of New Orleans, La., and president of the board of commissioners for the port of New Orleans; is a native of Savannah, Ga., where he was horn Feb. 3, 1865. He attended private schools at Savannah, and later graduated from Mount Pleasant Military Academy, Ossining, N. Y. As a young man he engaged in the rice business at the city of his birth, later removing to the city of New Orleans in 1893 end continuing in the same business up to the year 1906, at which time he transferred his activities to real estate. During the Spanish-American war he volunteered and served as captain of Company M, 2nd Louisiana regiment.

Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 186-187. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.