Who was the McGuffey who gave us the McGuffey Eclectic Readers?

William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873) wrote his first readers in 1836, following with more in the next two decades.

McGuffey was an American college teacher and political conservative.

The schoolbooks have sold 122 million copies.

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