The Guilford Family in America: Pedigrees and Genealogical Notes of the Guilford and Allied Families - Primary Source Edition
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Nathan Guilford was a city magistrate, educator, editor of an educational almanac. He always emphasized the value of education and the need of public schools in Ohio.
Background
Nathan Guilford, the eldest son of Dr. Jonas and Lydia (Hobbs) Guilford, was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, United States on July 19, 1786. He was descended from William Guilford who emigrated to America about 1648 and settled first in Massachusetts, United States.
Education
Nathan Guilford attended Leicester Academy. He graduated in 1812 from Yale College.
Career
After graduation Nathan Guilford conducted for a few months a classical school in Worcester. He then entered the law office of Francis Blake of Worcester with the intention of fitting himself for the legal profession.
In the fall of 1814 he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, and during the next year and a half devoted part of his time to teaching.
Two years later, while residing in Alexandria, Kentucky, he formed a law partnership with Amos Kendall .
They decided to establish themselves in Georgetown, Kentucky, but in November of that year (1816) Kendall was compelled to withdraw on account of his newspaper and other political activities.
Guilford moved to Cincinnati, passed the bar examination in December 1816, and began to practise.
His interest in education led him to join with Samuel Lewis and others in advocating free education. In order to advance his ideas Guilford and his brother George established a publishing house with which he was actively associated until about 1840.
He also edited for seven years (1818-25) an educational almanac under the pseudonym of Solomon Thrifty.
In addition to the usual information found in such works, Solomon Thrifty’s Almanac contained on each page some statement emphasizing the value of education and the need of public schools in Ohio.
During the winter of 1821-22, Governor Allen Trimble appointed seven commissioners to devise and report upon a common-school plan for Ohio.
Although Guilford was appointed a member of the committee he refused to cooperate with the other members on the ground that their plans were inadequate.
Instead in 1822 he published A Letter on Free Education urging the establishment of schools supported by general taxation.
Since the Assembly was unwilling to risk advanced legislation, an appeal was made to the People and in 1824 Guilford was elected to the state Senate on this platform. With the assistance of Ephraim Cutler of Marietta, he guided the legislature in its authorization, February 5, 1825, of an assessment for educational purposes, of one-half mill on the value of all taxable property, despite the strenuous opposition to the law by the larger tax payers of Cincinnati, the proprietors of private schools, and by the group it was especially designed to assist, namely, the poorer classes whose children were known as charity students.
The schools were placed under the control of a board of trustees, later called the board of education.
The earliest meetings of the board were held in Guilford’s home and he served as a member until his resignation, July 1832.
Compelled by his educational activities to withdraw gradually from the practice of law, Guilford devoted more attention as a publisher to the improvement of school textbooks.
In 1831 he brought out The Western Spelling Book, styled “an Improvement on the American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster”; and in 1836 he published The Juvenile Arithmetic, which was extensively used.
Nathan Guilford devoted himself to the promotion of legislation for the erection of the free public schools of Cincinnati and in February 1829 succeeded in securing the passage of such a law. Later, from 1843 to 1847, he was the owner and editor of the Cincinnati Daily Atlas, a Whig journal.
In 1850 a special act of the legislature authorized the election by popular vote of a superintendent of public schools for Cincinnati.
Guilford was elected and held office from April 1850 until June 1852 with an annual salary of five hundred dollars.
In his first report he recommended a revision of the textbooks and the classification of schools, and vigorously attacked the verbatim recitation and the strict disciplinary methods then in vogue.
In 1854 he was elected city magistrate and was holding that office at the time of his death.
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Personality
Nathan Guilford was a man of great kindness. He was said to be a confirmed deist and lost his position as a result of an argument which arose over the question of the use of the Bible in the schools.
Connections
On August 29, 1819, Nathan Guilford was married to Eliza Wheeler Farnsworth of Woodstock, Vermont.