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William created the first four readers and Alexander McGuffey created the fifth and sixth reader. [1] [2] [3] About 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. [4] Since 1961, they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. [4]
American Book Company, letter envelope 25 September 1916. American Book Company was formed in 1890 by the consolidation of Van Antwerp, Bragg and Co., A.S. Barnes & Co., D. Appleton and Co., and Ivison, Blakeman and Co. [2] It was acquired by Litton Industries in 1967 [3] and existed as a division of Litton Educational Publishing, Inc. until being sold to the International Thomson Organization ...
William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American college professor and president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school-level textbooks.
Alexander Hamilton McGuffey (August 13, 1816 – June 3, 1896) was an editor of the fifth and sixth of the series of McGuffey Readers. His brother William Holmes McGuffey edited the first four readers in the series. [1] Alexander McGuffey began his career as an educator, before becoming a lawyer.
Alexander McGuffey was born on November 22, 1767, in Wigtownshire in the southwestern corner of Scotland. [1] His parents were Ann McKittrick and William McGuffey. Nicknamed "Scotch Billy", his father was a farmer and a clobber, [2] which could mean that he painted pottery to look like oriental ceramics [3] or that he repaired shoes with glue. [4]
He and John H. Galey established the Guffey and Galey Company in 1880 [4] or 1886. [6] At one time, it was the largest oil producer in the world, outputting 40,000 barrels per day. [4] The pair arranged the financing needed to drill for oil in the Spindletop oil field. When oil was found on January 10, 1901, it started the Texas oil boom.
The William H. McGuffey House is a historic house museum at 401 East Spring Street, on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Built in 1833, it was the home of author and professor William Holmes McGuffey (1800–1873) from then until 1836.
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