Quackenbush, John A – Quincy, Josiah
Quackenbush, John A
merchant, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1828, in Schaghticoke, N. Y. He was elected a member of the New York assembly from the second district of Rensselaer county in the fall of 1862; and was elected sheriff of Rensselaer county in the fall of 1873, and served three years. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a republican.
Quackenbush, Nathan Rice
clergyman, was born April 4, 1837, in New York city. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, and graduated from the St.
Lawrence university of Canton, N. Y. He has attained success as one of the foremost clergymen of the universalist church; filled a pastorate for six years in Benton Harbor, Mich., and since 1892 has filled a pastorate in Plain City, Ohio.
He contributes extensively to current literature religious and educational topics. on
Quackenbush, Stephen Platt
naval officer, was born Jan. 23, 1823, in Albany, N. Y. During the civil war he attained the rank of commodore. He died Feb. 4, 1890, in Washington, D. C.
Qualtrough, Edward F
naval officer, author, was born in 1850 in New York. He is a United States naval officer who has published The Sailor's Handy Book and Yachtsman's Manual; and The Boat Sailor's Manual.
Quarles, Greenfield
lawyer, legislator, was born April 1, 1847, in Christian county, Ky. In 1879 and in 1881 he was a member of the Arkansas house of representatives; filled the same position in 1895, and is now a member of the state senate. In 1884-86 he was prosecuting attorney of the first district of his state.
Quarles, James M
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1823, in Louisa county, Va. In 1846 he became attorneygeneral of the tenth district of Tennessee; and was a presidential elector in 1851. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-sixth congress.
Quarles, Tunstall
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1817 to 1820; and was subsequently receiver of public moneys at Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Quarter, William
bishop, was born Jan. 24, 1806, in Ireland. In 1844 he was consecrated first Roman catholic bishop of Chicago, and completed the.
Chicago cathedral from his own resources.
He died April 10, 1848, in Chicago, Ill.
Quartley, Frederick William
engraver, was born July 5, 1808, in England. His best-known work is in Picturesque America; and Picturesque Europe. He also painted with some success.
Among his pictures are Niagara Falls; Butter-Milk Falls; and Catskill Falls.
He died April 5, 1874, in New York city.
Quay, Matthew Stanley
soldier, United States senator, was born Sept. 30, 1833, in Dillsburg, Pa. He was military secretary to the governor of Pennsylvania in 1861-65, and was a member of the legislature in 1865-67. He was secretary of the commonwealth in 1871-78; was recorder of the city of Philadelphia, and chairman of the republican state committee in 1878- 79; was secretary of the commonwealth in 1879-82, and was delegate-at-large to the republican national conventions of 1872, 1876 and 1880. He was elected state treasurer in 1885. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican, and was re-elected in 1893.
Quayle, Albert Johnson
lawyer, was born Sept. 14, 1872, in Moberly, Mo.
He graduated from the State university of Columbia, Mo., and has attained success as an able lawyer in the place of his nativity, where he takes an active part in public affairs.
Quayle, William Alfred
college president, was born June 25, 1860, in Parkville, Mo. In 1890 he was elected president of the Baker university, Kan., which position he still holds.
Queen, Walter W
naval officer, was born Oct. 6, 1824, in Washington, D.
C. He served with distinction through the Mexican war, and during the civil war became a commander. He was commissioned captain in 1874; commodore in 1883; and rear-admiral in 1886.
Quick, Charles William
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 4, 1822, in New York city. He edited The Episcopal Recorder in 1866-81; The Christian Woman in 1885, and the works of Ezekiel Hopkins; Righteousness by Faith, by Charles P. McIlvaine, and the works of John Owen.
Quigg, Lemuel E
journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1863, in Cecil county, Md. He is by profession a journalist; was a member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune for ten years, and subsequently editor in chief of the New York Press. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Quillin, Lemuel Abner
merchant, actor, was born June 12, 1849, in Syracuse, Ohio. For many years he was connected with a circus, and has traveled all over the world several times. He is now a successful merchant of North Branch, Minn., and proprietor of Quillin's Opera house. He is the author of a volume of songs, and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.
Quimby, Isaac Newton
physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 5, 1831, near Basking Ridge, N. J. For many years he was engaged in the flour and milling business at Somerville and Zanesville, Ohio. In 1859 he graduated in medicine; and during the war served as a volunteer surgeon with General McClellan's forces. In 1866-68 he was a lecturer in the university Medical college of New York city. He was the originator of Christ's hospital in 1868, and was surgeon to the same until 1873. He is also one of the attending surgeons of the city hospital of Jersey City. He is the author of valuable papers on medical subjects, and a member of the leading medical bodies of Europe and America.
Quimby, Isaiah W
educator, lawyer, legislator, was born May 5, 1837, near Oakland, Ohio. He has served two terms of two years each in the Ohio state legislature; and under the Harrison administration was special examiner in pension bureau, and in board of pension appeals.
Quimby, Lucy Hill
philanthropist, educator, writer, was born Jan. 18, 1849, in Rochester, N. Y. In 1864 she founded the Misses Calvin's school in Rochester; and in 1866 was married to Captain W.
M. Quimby, who died ten years later. For the past twenty years she has been principal of the Nausemond seminary of Suffolk, Va.; has introduced modern methods and modern text books in the normal schools of Virginia, and has contributed extensively to educational literature.
Quin, Minnie
educator, poet, was born in December, 1867, in Atlanta, Ga.
She is a successful educator in her native city, and the author of a volume of poems entitled May Blossoms.
Quinby, George Washington
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 20, 1810, in Westbrook, Maine. He was a universalist clergyman in Maine and Ohio, and the author of The Salvation of Christ; Brief Exposition of Universalism; Marriage and Its Duties; The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House; and Heaven Our Home. He died Jan. 10, 1884, in Augusta, Maine.
Quinby, William Emory
journalist, was born Dec. 14, 1835, in Brewer, Maine. In 1863 he was made managing editor of the Detroit Free Press, and in 1872 became its owner.
Quincy, Abraham Howard
merchant, journalist, author, was born November, 1767, in Boston. In 1808 his interest in the disputes with Great Britain led him into the field of journalism, and that year published the first number of a weekly paper entitled the Columbian Detector.
In 1809 it was published twice a week.
It was afterward merged in the Boston Patriot. From 1828 to 1832 he lived at Eastport, Maine, where for a short time he edited the Northern Light. He died Sept. 11, 1840, in Washington, D. C.
Quincy, Edmund
statesman, was born Oct. 24, 1681, in Quincy, Mass. He was a statesman in the colonial times.
He was the ancestor of a very distinguished line of Massachusetts statesmen. He died Feb. 23, 1738, in London, England.
Quincy, Edmund
merchant, author, was born in 1703 in Braintree, Mass. He was a Boston merchant who wrote a Treatise on Hemp Husbandry. He died in 1788.
Quincy, Edmund
author, was born Feb. 1, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston writer whose literary fame was hardly proportioned to his deserts; and the author of Wensley, and Other Stories; The Haunted Adjutant, and Other Stories; and Life of President Josiah Quincy. He died May 17, 1877, in Dedham, Mass.
Quincy, Josiah
patriot, was born in 1709, in Braintree, Mass. In 1775 he was one of the commissioners to treat with New York as to military defences against the French. He died in 1784.
QUINCY JOSIAH, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 23, 1744, in Boston, Mass. He was a famous Boston lawyer and patriot, and very prominent at the opening of the revolutionary period. He was the author of Observations on the Boston Port Bill.
He died at sea April 26, 1775, near Gloucester, Mass. a
Quincy, Josiah
lawyer, jurist, college president, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1772, in Boston, Mass. In 1804 he was chosen a representative from Massachusetts in the congress of the United States, and held that position eight successive years. He was chosen state senator for Suffolk from 1814 to 1821, was representative from Boston, and was speaker of the house in 1820. He was judge of the municipal court in Boston in 1821 and 1822. He was mayor of Boston in 1823, and held the office of mayor six successive years. In 1829 he was chosen president of Harvard university, and held that office until his resignation in 1845. His published works are Speeches in Congress, and Orations on Various Occasions; Memoir of Josiah Quincy, Jr., of Massachusetts: Centennial Address on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Boston; A History of Harvard University from 1636 to 1836; Memoir of James Grahame, Historian of the United States Army; Memoir of Major Samuel Shaw; History of the Boston Athenæum; and other works. He died July 1, 1864, in Quincy, Mass.