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.

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

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. "Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
  2. William Waller, Nashville in the 1890s, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970, p. 83
  3. 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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