William Holmes McGuffey

William Holmes McGuffey

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Early influential American educator

About William Holmes McGuffey

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.

Notable works:

The life of Washington

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