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...last week was Dr. Walter Reed, conqueror of yellow fever, with 57 votes. Economist Henry George scored 56, Suffragist Susan B. Anthony 55, Author Henry David Thoreau 54. Louisa May Alcott with 28 showed her heels to Herman Melville with 24. Far down the list were William Holmes McGuffey (McGuffey's Readers), 17, and Jefferson Davis...
...Just "McGuffey's," that's all. No other identification is necessary for multitudes of Americans. How could it be otherwise when 120,000,000 copies of the famous Readers were used by the children of 37 states in the later two-thirds of the last century...
...owed to those books a love for good reading. The simplest virtues, enforced by attractive tables and essays, sphorisms and short quotations, helped to form the character of the school children of three generations. That 20,000 were present recently at the dedication of the memorial to William Holmes McGuffey on the farm in western Pennsylvania where he was born is an eloquent testimonial to the worth of his work. Henry Ford honored himself and rendered a public service in promoting the project...
Good reading, well selected, varied in mood and subject, an introduction to the great literature of the world--these facts account for the fame of that old-time Presbyterian college professor--"McGuffey." Those were the happy days. Boston Herald...
About that time a lieutenant colonel of Ohio militia arrived in town as an "observer." He showed himself in uniform around the place and by nightfall McGuffey had calmed down. From Washington the Department of Labor dispatched another mediator. Meantime, the weeds were harvesting the onion crop...