1800
William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic (died 1873)
William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic (died 1873)
William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic (died 1873)
William Holmes McGuffey
Early influential American educator
- Born
- 1800
William Holmes McGuffey 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. More than 120 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.