George Blackmore Guild

George Blackmore Guild (1834-1917) was an American Democratic politician.[1][2][3] He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1891 to 1895.[1][2][3]

Biography

He was born April 8, 1834 in Gallatin, Tennessee.[1][3] 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.[3] He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.[4]

He fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865.[4][5] He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1891 to 1895, being elected in 1891 and reelected in 1893.[1][2]

He was married on March 5, 1861 to Georgia Thompson.[1] They had five children, including George M., Maria (Westbrook), Jo Conn and William.[1] He died in Virginia on April 21, 1917.[1] He is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN
  2. 1 2 3 Nashville Library Archived October 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. 1 2 3 4 William Waller, Nashville in the 1890s, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970, p. 83
  4. 1 2 The Beta Theta Pi, Volume 23, 1895
  5. ↑ The Journal of East Tennessee History, issue 76, 2005, p. 113
Political offices
Preceded by
William Litterer		 Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
1891-1895 		Succeeded by
William Marshall McCarthey


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