George Blackmore Guild

He was born April 8, 1834, in Gallatin, Tennessee.^[1][2] 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]