When Leo James McGuire was born on 21 October 1885, in Fremont, Iowa, United States, his father, Bernard McGuire, was 42 and his mother, Susan Agnes Smith, was 32. He married Cora Blaine Scoles on 31 May 1906, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Fayette, Iowa, United States in 1905 and Jefferson Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 8 August 1915, in Grant, Washington, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery, Fairbank, Buchanan, Iowa, United States.
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