Alexander Hamilton McGuffey

Birth Date

1816-08-13

Death Date

1896-06-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hamilton County, Ohio, attorney. Ohio native. Son of Alexander McGuffey and Anna Holmes McGuffey. Married to Elizabeth Drake McGuffey. Father of Daniel Drake McGuffey, Charles Drake McGuffey, Harriet McGuffey, Anna McGuffey, Frederick McGuffey, Alice McGuffey Laughlin, Edward McGuffey, Helen McGuffey, and William McGuffey. Secretary and treasurer of Cincinnati College in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1845. Attorney in Hamilton County in 1850. Attorney in Hamilton County in 1860. Employed Mary Collary and Mariah Garden as domestic servants in Hamilton County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ward 2, p. 121B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Warren County, Union, p. 62.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ward 3, p. 273A.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, Ky, National #75868, State #8723.
J. Remsen Bishop, "Alexander Hamilton McGuffey," The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education, Volume 45 (1896), 327-329.
"Alexander Hamilton McGuffey (1816-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #5087, accessed June 30, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5087/alexander-hamilton-mcguffey.
"Harriet 'Etta' McGuffey (1847-1849)," Find A Grave, Memorial #78992991, accessed August 11, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78992991/harriet-mcguffey.

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