The Hall of Honor was established by the AGCA in 1994 to acknowledge those individuals, no longer living, who had contributed significantly in some way to the development of American games and/or to the game industry in the United States. These included company founders and presidents, manufacturers, inventors and designers, illustrators, promoters and agents, and the like. The award ceased after 1999 once the AGCA became the AGPC, when a new suite of awards was instituted.
Inductees in the AGCA Hall of Honor
1999 • Edward Imeson Horsman (1843–1927), founder, E. I. Horsman Co.
Horsman, a company later noted more for dolls, produced beautiful games between 1885 and 1895. In 1885, Horsman introduced Halma, the only 19th century American game still played in many countries around the world.
- Book, Horsman Dolls, by Don Jensen, digitized at Archive.org, with a history of the company including their games and puzzles.
- Article at MysteriousPlanchette.com
- Article at Tiddlywinks.org
1998 • Elmer E. Fairchild
Cofounder of Alderman Fairchild Company in Rochester, NY, a company that produced exceptional lithographed games of metal and cardboard during the 1920s.
1997 • Elisha Gee Selchow
Founder of the company that bore his name (E. G. Selchow) and later became Selchow & Righter; his company produced, among many other great ames, Parcheesi, introduced in the 1860s, and Pigs in Clover, the most popular dexterity puzzle of its time (1880s
- Article, "The House That Parcheesi Built: Selchow & Righter Company", by Paula Petrik, in The Business History Review, volume 60, number 3, Autumn 1986, pages 410-437, available online by subscription at Jstor.org .
1996 • Edmund McLoughlin, the “other” McLoughlin brother
1995 • Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Magie Phillips (1866–1948)
She invented The Landlord's Game in 1905, which was adapted in 1936 by Clarence Darrow to become Monopoly, one of the most popular proprietary games of all time.
- Wikipedia article
- Wednesday's Woman article
1994 • Milton Bradley (1836–1911)
Founder of the Milton Bradley Company in 1860.
- Wikipedia article
- Book, It's All in the Game, A Biography of Milton Bradley, the Man Who Taught America to Play, by James J. Shea, Charles Mercer, 1960 • at Archive.org
- Book, Milton Bradley, A Successful Man, by the Milton Bradley Company, 1910 • digitized but not online at Springfield Museums
1994 • John McLoughlin Jr. (1827–1905)
Founder of McLoughlin Brothers.
- Book, Radiant with Color and Art by the American Antiquarian Society
- Obituary: Publisher's Weekly, 6 May 1905
1994 • George S. Parker, founder, Parker Brothers
