Gem City Business College

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Notability|1=Companies|date=May 2024}}

File:Spencerian example.jpg]]

Gem City Business College was a business school in Quincy, Illinois. It was founded by DeLafayette Musselman in 1870.{{Cite web|url=https://www.whig.com/archive/article/once-upon-a-time-in-quincy-gem-city-business-college-educator-saved-the-american-bluebird/article_45ce5d6d-3b27-54ed-a11d-02f16e13256b.html|title=Once Upon A Time in Quincy: Gem City Business College educator saved the American bluebird|date=November 12, 2011|website=Herald-Whig}}

The Musselman Building was part of the school.{{Cite web|url=https://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/qpl/id/1418/|title=Gem City Business College|website=www.idaillinois.org}} The five-story building opened in 1892.{{Cite web|url=https://www.footballarchaeology.com/p/football-of-a-different-type-gem-city-business-college|title=A Different Type of Football: Gem City Business College|first=Timothy P.|last=Brown|website=www.footballarchaeology.com}}

Robert O. Brown wrote a history of the college published by Northeast Missouri State Teachers College in 1958.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rNU9uAAACAAJ | title=A History of the Gem City Business College, Quincy, Illinois | date=1958 | publisher=Northeast Missouri State Teachers College }}