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.
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]