This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GUEST, MAY, SCHAFFER Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4163 Message Board Post: During a period of thirty-five years Maynard A. Guest has been a resident of Grand Rapids, having come here with his parents when a lad. He is therefore, while not a native of the city, a Grand Rapids man by education, training and preference. He is an exemplification of the alert, self-reliant, progressive citizen whose record speaks for itself, and in his capacity as secretary of the Widdicomb Furniture Company he is demonstrating the possession of a high order of executive capacity. Mr. Guest was born at Cadillac, Mich., Sept. 9, 1879, son of Chauncey and Jennie (May) Guest. He was about four years old when his parents brought him to Grand Rapids, and here he grew up, his edcuation being the ordinary one to be acquired through attendance at the graded schools. The first business experience was gained by Mr. Guest while in the employ of the G. R. & I. Railroad, but after three months with that service he resigned and transferred his activities to the Michigan Chair Company! , where his early information and later training came in regard to the furniture business. Mr. Guest remained with his concern for some seventeen years, becoming secretary and treasurer of the company, and leaving, in 1916, to become secretary of the Widdicomb Furniture Company, which position he has retained to the present time. In his political proclivities Mr. Guest is a Republican and has always taken an interest in the success of his party, although never having desired to be a candidate for public preferment. He is a valued member of the O-wash-ta-nong Club, the Highlands Gold Club and the Furniture Club, has other connections of a business and social nature, and is popular with a wide circle of friends. Mr. Guest was married Oct. 8, 1906, to Miss Rhona Schaffer, of Saline, Mich., and of this union have been born four children – Adelia Estelle, Marjorie, Donald Maynard and Jean.