Caption: THE HENRY FORD and GREENFIELD VILLAGE Dearborn, MichiganPublic Relations departmentLOgan-1-1620, Ext. 5220This tiny log cabin was the birthplace of William Holmes McGuffey, famed author of the "Eclectic Readers" in 1800. His text books are the second best sellers in the world after the Bible. More than 122,000,000 copies of the six "Eclectic Readers" and a high school reader were sold between 1858 when the first came out and the present day.Henry Ford thought so much of the unpretentious little school books, that even today, they are used in the lower grades of the Edison Institute Schools.
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