Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Alexander Hamilton McGuffey




Husband Alexander Hamilton McGuffey 1

           Born: 13 Aug 1816 1
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           Died: 3 Jun 1896 - Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, OH 1
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         Father: Alexander McGuffey (1767-1855) 2
         Mother: Anna Holmes (      -      ) 1





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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Hamilton McGuffey


For sixty years he was an honored member of the Cincinnati bar, and for more than half a century before his death secretary, treasurer and mainstay of the Cincinnati College.
He and his brother, William, are known to posterity as the originators of the famous McGuffey series of school books. William was the author of the first four McGuffey Readers, and Alexander H., of the two other readers and one speller.

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Sources


1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 624.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 622.


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