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William Holmes McGuffey
1800 Sep, 23

William Holmes McGuffey

William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic (d. 1873)
William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was a 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.

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