George Blackmore Guild
47th Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
In office
1891 (1891)–1895 (1895)
Preceded byWilliam Litterer
Succeeded byWilliam Marshall McCarthey
Personal details
Born(1834-04-08)April 8, 1834
Gallatin, Tennessee
DiedApril 21, 1917(1917-04-21) (aged 83)
Virginia
Resting placeMount Olivet Cemetery
Political partyDemocrat
Spouse
Georgia Thompson
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(m. 1861⁠–⁠1917)​
Children5
Alma materCumberland University
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States of America
Branch/service Confederate States Army
Years of service1891-1865
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
  2. 1 2 William Waller, Nashville in the 1890s, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970, p. 83
  3. 1 2 The Beta Theta Pi, Volume 23, 1895
  4. ↑ The Journal of East Tennessee History, issue 76, 2005, p. 113
  5. ↑ Nashville Library Archived October 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine


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