thalheimer

Updated: June 4, 2025

W.B. Thalheimer in charge of the business and resumed control of the duplicate plates of the McGuffey Readers. From the location of Cincinnati on the Ohio river, then affording the cheapest means of distributing goods to all parts of the South, Mr. Smith had obtained, before 1860, a very considerable part of the schoolbook trade in the Southern states of the Mississippi Valley.

Henry Hobart Vail - A History of the McGuffey Readers