William Holmes MCGUFFEY

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    1. William lived in a simple one-roomfrontier log home, built about 1780, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, until he was two years old, when his parents packed up their homestead and headed further west to the Ohio wilderness.
    2. Will created the McGuffey's, series of Eclectric Readers based on his unique upbringing and experiences on the Ohio frontier.
    3. His easy-to-understand readers were widely used school textbooks in the mid-1800's, and were a favorite of Henry Ford.
    4. William was teaching at subscription schools by the time he was 14 years old.
    5. He accepted a professorship in ancient languages at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in February of 1826, before receiving his B.A. from Washington College.
    6. William was ordained as a Presbyterian minister March 29, 1829, preaching occasionally at the University and in nearby Darrtown.
    7. He served as president of Cincinnati College from 1836 to 1839, when he accepted the presidency of Ohio University. He resigned from that position in 1843 and moved his family back to Cincinnati.
    8. The family moved into his brother Alexander's home and William taught at Woodward College from 1843 to 1845.
    9. In 1845, he accepted a professorship in moral philosophy at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was to remain for the rest of his life.