Arthur Rose Guerard was the son of Octavius Jacob Guerard and Amelia L. Rose. He was a direct descendant of Jacques Guerard, a French Huguenot who brought his family to the Charles Town area of South Carolina in 1680. His maternal grandfather was Arthur Gordon Rose, who was president of the Bank of Charleston from 1850-1856. He was the great great grandson of Hugh Rose, 15th Baron Kilravock in Scotland. He was raised in Charleston and went abroad with his widowed mother and grandparents after the Civil War ended. He traveled in England, Scotland, France and Germany as a young man, becoming fluent in both French and German, and graduated from St. Andrew's University in Scotland in 1871 with a MA degree in the Classics. He also completed the course of study at the Royal College of Mines in London in 1875. He married Eugenie Engels on Feb. 23, 1878 in Germany and their first child, a son, was born in Dusseldorf in 1879. He and his family returned to America around 1881 and in 1886, he built a large home in Flat Rock, NC which he named Heidelberg House. He and his wife had a total of eight children, of which seven lived to adulthood. Between 1892-1895, he studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in NYC and he became a doctor in his mid-40s. His first wife died in 1900 and he remarried and had seven more children with his second wife. They lived in NYC where he worked as a Public Health Officer. Mr. Guerard wrote or co-wrote several books and articles pertaining to mining and the medical field as well as numerous papers outlining the history of his family, including his own memoir, "Reminiscences of a Great Grandfather Illustrating the Life and Experiences of an American Gentleman of the Old South", which was privately printed in a limited quantity for the 2012 Guerard Reunion at Bonclarken, the former Heidelberg House in Flat Rock, NC.