George Blackmore Guild
George Blackmore Guild (1834-1917) was an American Democratic politician. He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1891 to 1895.
Biography
He was born April 8, 1834 in Gallatin, Tennessee.[1][2] He attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for two years and transferred to Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, where he graduated as a valedictorian.[2] He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.[3]
He fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865.[3][4] He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1891 to 1895, being elected in 1891 and reelected in 1893.[1][5]
He was married on March 5, 1861 to Georgia Thompson.[1] They had five children, Josephus Conn (1862–1907), William Thompson (1866-1895), Walter Keeble (1868-1872), George Mullins, and Maria (Westbrook) (1873–1954).[1] He died in Virginia on April 21, 1917 and was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN
- ^ a b William Waller, Nashville in the 1890s, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970, p. 83 [1]
- ^ a b The Beta Theta Pi, Volume 23, 1895
- ^ The Journal of East Tennessee History, issue 76, 2005, p. 113
- ^ Nashville Library Archived October 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
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