George Blackmore Guild Explained

George Blackmore Guild
Order:47th
Office:Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
Birth Date:8 April 1834
Resting Place:Mount Olivet Cemetery
Party:Democrat
Children:5
Alma Mater:Cumberland University
Serviceyears:1891-1865
Battles:American 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] 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN . 2013-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160313015642/http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/mayors.html . 2016-03-13 . dead .
  2. William Waller, Nashville in the 1890s, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970, p. 83 https://books.google.com/books?id=YuYlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22George+Blackmore+Guild%22
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=RgETAAAAIAAJ&q=%22George+Blackmore+Guild%22 The Beta Theta Pi, Volume 23, 1895
  4. The Journal of East Tennessee History, issue 76, 2005, p. 113
  5. http://www.library.nashville.org/research/res_nash_history_mayors.asp Nashville Library