William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer

originally published:

1836

awards:

  • Library of Congress 88 Books That Shaped America(1836)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 09/23/1800
died: 05/04/1873
born as: William Holmes McGuffey

American professor and college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, one of the nation's first and most widely used series of textbooks.