page_title: William Holmes McGuffey
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: William Holmes McGuffey / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: McGuffey High School
context_page_description: William Holmes McGuffey 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.
context_section_description: The William H. McGuffey Primary Schoolin Charlottesville, VA bears his name.  The historic building is currently an artist-run cooperative arts center, currently known as the McGuffey Art Center.
  Ohio University's Department of University Advancement is housed in a building named McGuffey Hall.
  At Miami University, McGuffey Hall is a large academic building home to several education-related departments, including the College of Education, Health, and Society and the Teacher Education and Educational Leadership departments. The university ran the McGuffey Laboratory School from 1910 until 1983 on its campus. When the school closed, some of the parents started The William Holmes McGuffey School Foundation which operates an independent progressive school in Oxford called the McGuffey Foundation School. The school was later renamed the McGuffey Montessori School.
  The McGuffey School District in Washington County, Pennsylvania is named for William Holmes McGuffey. The industrialist Henry Ford cited McGuffey Readers as one of his most important childhood influences. In 1934 he had the log cabin where McGuffey was born moved to Greenfield Village, Ford's museum of Americana at Dearborn, Michigan.
  In 1998 the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission installed a historical marker at McGuffey High School/Middle School noting McGuffey's historic importance.
caption: McGuffey High School in Claysville, PA
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