Yale University graduate
Corporate attorney
Regent, University of Michigan, 1848-1952

Son of Lewis Atterbury (b. 1779, England) and Catherine Boudinot (b. 1781)

Grandson of Job Atterbury and Sarah Bakewell & Elisha Boudinot and Kate Smith Boudinot (daughter o William Peartree Smith)

Known children:
*Charles Larned Atterbury
*Catherine Boudinot Atterbury Conner, wife of Charles H. Connor
*John Coit Atterbury
*Henry S. Atterbury
*Sylvester L Atterbury
*Mary Atterbury
*Allen Williams Atterbury
*Elizabeth Atterbury
*Edward Mann Atterbury
*Frederick Bryant Atterbury
*Wallace W. Atterbury

Known siblings:
*Mary Atterbury Coit
*Lewis Atterbury
*Elisha Boudinot Atterbury
*Edward J.C. Atterbury
*Julia Maria Atterbury Stimson, wife of Henry C. Stimson
*Benjamin Bakewell Atterbury
*the Rev. William Wallace Atterbury, D.D.
*Francis Atterbury of Manchester, England

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John Guest Atterbury was born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 7, 1811, son of Louis [Atterbury] and Katherine (Boudinot) Atterbury. His paternal ancestors were English; on the mother's side he was descended from a French Huguenot family.

After a preparatory training in the public schools of Newark, New Jersey, he entered Yale College, and was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1831. In 1843 he also received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale. He studied law and was admitted to the Bar in New York City, and began to practice his profession there; but he soon removed to Detroit, Michigan, where he relinquished the practice of law to enter the Christian ministry.

He was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church of Flint, Michigan, and held the position for six years, when, owing to failing health, he sought a change of climate and removed to New Albany, Indiana. Here he remained as pastor of the Second Presbyterian church till a further failure of health made it necessary for him to give up this charge. After a season of rest he was appointed Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education, with residence in New York. He held this position until the reunion of the old and new schools in 1870.

Returning to Detroit he organized the Calvary Church and acted as its pastor for three years. February 14, 1848, he was appointed Regent of the University and served till January 1, 1852. In 1863 Marietta College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

He was married September 1, 1840, to Catherine Jones Larned, and there are five surviving children: Charles [Larned Atterbury], of New York; Henry, of St. Louis; Allen, of Detroit; William Wallace, of Philadelphia; and Mrs. Katharine Conner, of Rye, New York. He died in Detroit, August 24, 1887.

University of Michigan Memoir, Jan. 1, 1906