Background
Guy was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to William Evans Guy and Katherine B. Lemoine Guy on September 28, 1897.
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Guy was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to William Evans Guy and Katherine B. Lemoine Guy on September 28, 1897.
In 1915, Guy graduated from Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey. He then studied at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey between the fall of 1915 and February 1917 before leaving for Europe to serve in World War I.
Guy flew biplanes for both France"s Aeronautique Militaire and the United States. Army Air Service during World War I. He served in the Lafayette Flying Corps, a group of 180 American pilots who flew for France. He had two siblings: William Edwin Guy and Catherine Lemoine Guy. Guy"s father, William Evans Guy, was a Civil War veteran.
He served with the 86th Ohio Infantry in the Union Army.
Guy"s grandfather, David Everett Wade, served in the American Revolutionary War after growing up in Northern New Jersey. He then helped found Cincinnati after traveling west to Ohio by boat in 1790.
He also served as a founding trustee of Cincinnati College (now the University of Cincinnati) and as a county commissioner, township officer, councilman, and first alderman. Guy served as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service (AFS) from February to July of 1917.
Following the end of the war, Guy resumed his college studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Master of Arts. He received his bachelor"s degree in chemical engineering in 1922.
Following graduation, Guy worked for Monsanto Company, a chemical company in Missouri, and then Ingersoll Rand, an Irish industrial company with an American headquarters in Davidson, North Carolina. After working at the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company in Philadelphia, he co-founded Wellington Foundation and served as their president The foundation sold Wellington Funds, a type of mutual fund.