Quincy, Josiah – Rafinesque, Constantine Smaltz
Quincy, Josiah
state senator, author, was born Jan. 17, 1802, in Boston, Mass. He was the fourth mayor of Boston in 1845-49; and was a member of the Massachusetts senate. He was the author of a work entitled Figures of the Past. He died Nov. 2, 1882, in Quincy, Mass.
Quincy, Josiah Phillips
littérateur, author, was born Nov. 28, 1829, in Boston, Mass. He is a littérateur of Boston, and the author of Charicles, a drama; Lyteria, a drama; The Peckster Professorship, a Story; and The Protection of Majorities, and Other Papers.
Quincy, Samuel Miller
soldier, lawyer, author, was born in 1833 in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston lawyer who served in the federal army during the civil war, and the author of The Man Who Was Not a Colonel; and A Prisoner's Diary. He died in 1887.
Quinlan, John
bishop, college president, was born Oct. 19, 1826, in Ireland. He was nominated for the diocese of Mobile, and he was consecrated bishop in 1859. He died March 9, 1883, in New Orleans, La.
Quinn, John
lawyer, banker, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1839, in Ireland. He is president of the West Side Electric Light and Power company, and a director in the Homestead bank of New York, being one of the founders of the bank. He was elected to the legislature in 1882, and was a member of the board of aldermen for the years 1885-87; was a delegate to the democratic national convention at Chicago in 1884, and to St. Louis in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat. He is now commissioner of appraisal for the taking of lands for water reservoir purposes for the city of New York, of which commission he is chairman.
Quinn, Terence J
state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1836, in Albany, N. Y. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1874, and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth congress. He died June 18, 1878.
Quinney, William Rutherford
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 28, 1861, in Union county, Ark. In 1888 he was elected to the house of representatives of Arkansas; received the re-election two years later; and in 1892 became a member of the state senate.
Quint, Alonzo Hall
clergyman, author, was born March 22, 1828, in Barnstead, N. H. He was a prominent congregational clergyman of Boston, and the author of The Potomac and the Rapidan, or Army Notes; and Records of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-65.
Quintard, Charles Todd
bishop of Tennessee, was born Dec. 22, 1824, in Stamford, Conn. At the beginning of the civil war he was elected chaplain of the first Tennessee regiment, and he served throughout the war, being frequently called upon to exercise his medical knowledge as physician and surgeon. The university of the South was entirely swept away by the war, nothing being left but its landed estate of 10,000 acres. Bishop Quintard re-established the university on a sound financial basis, and was its first vice-chancellor.
Quintard, George William
manufacturer, president and director of corporations, was born April 22, 1822, in Stamford, Conn. In 1867 he sold the Morgan Iron works in order to devote his own attention to the New York and Charleston Steamship company, of which he had become president and part proprietor. He managed the pany well, but did not find in its operacomtions sufficient scope for his overflowing energy. In 1869, accordingly, he established the Quintard Iron works, occupying a site at 742 East Twelfth street, extending through to East Eleventh street, on the East river, a few blocks above the Morgan Iron works. Here he resumed the construction of marine engines and machinery, and in a short time developed the plant into an extensive establishment, making it in time one of the most prominent in the United States.
Quinton, Amelia Stone
president of the Women's National Indian association, is a lineal descendant of Governor Bradford of the Mayflower, and was born near Syracuse, N. Y.
For many years she was engaged in educational work, at first among prisons, reformatories and asylums in New York; but in 1874 she entered the Women's Christian Temperance union, and was soon elected New York state organizer. In 1877 Miss Stone went to Europe and there addressed many readings in London and elsewhere; and the following year was married to Richard L. Quinton, A. M., an eminent lecturer, and they settled in Philadelphia in the spring of 1889. She organized the Women's National Indian association, which led to the passage of the Dawes severalty bill, which in 1887 gained for the Indians the right of holding lands in severalty.
Quitman, Frederick Henry
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1760, in Westphalia. He was a lutheran clergyman of Rhinebeck, N. Y., and the author of Treatise on Magic; and Sermons on the Reformation. He died June 26, 1832, in Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Quitman, John Anthony
soldier, educator, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1799, in Rhinebeck, N. Y. He was professor of law in Mount Airy college, Pennsylvania. In 1820 he moved to Ohio, and in 1821 moved to Natchez, Miss. In 1827 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; in 1828 was appointed chancellor of the state, serving three years; and served as a delegate to a state constitutional convention. In 1835 he was elected to the state senate, and, as president of that body, was called upon to perform the duties of governor. In 1836 he distinguished himself as a soldier and leader in behalf of Texas against Mexico. He was judge of the high court of errors and appeals of Mississippi; served with distinction in the Mexican war, and was for a time the American governor of Mexico, and became a major-general in the army.
He was a presidential elector in 1848, and was governor of Mississippi in 1850.
In 1855 he was elected a representative in congress from Mississippi, and was reelected in 1857. He died July 17, 1858, in Natchez, Miss.
Raburn, William
lawyer, jurist, state senator, governor, was born April 8, 1771, in Halifax county, N. C. He was a judge of the inferior court, was a member of the assembly; was a state senator; and was governor of Georgia from 1817 to 1819. He died Oct. 23, 1819, in Hancock county, Ga.
Rademacher, Joseph
Roman catholic bishop, was born Dec. 3, 1840, in Westphalia, Mich. He was nominated to the see of Nashville and was consecrated bishop in 1883.
Rader, Cary Melvin
lawyer, politician, was born July 27, 1868, in Carroll county, Ind. He received a thorough education, and in 1891 graduated from the law department of the Central Normal college of Danville, Ind. The following year he located in Walla Walla, Wash.; has been city attorney and filled various other public positions of trust.
Rader, Lewis Ellsworth
journalist, legislator, was born March 16, 1864, in Hazel Dell, Ill. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Washington legislature from Pierce county, and in 1896 he received the re-election. He is a successful journalist, poet, and for several years was editor of the Walla Walla Daily Statesman.
Radford, William
naval officer, was born March 1, 1808, in Fincastle, Va.
He was appointed rear-admiral in 1866; commanded the European squadron in 1869-70, and was retired in March, 1870.
He died Jan. 8, 1890, in Washington, D. C.
Radford, William
merchant, congressman, was born June 24, 1814, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-ninth congress. He died Jan. 18, 1870, in Yonkers, N. Y.
Rae, Luzerne
educator, was born Dec. 22, 1811, in New Haven, Conn. In 1831 he became instructor of the deaf and dumb in the Hartford asylum, which office he held until his death. He was editor of the Religious Herald from 1843 till 1847, and of the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb from 1848 till 1854; and published anonymously numerous poems, which were collected and printed privately under the title of Text and Context. He died Sept. 16, 1854, in Hartford, . Conn.
Raff, George Wertz
banker, author, was born March 24, 1825, in Tuscarawas, Ohio. He was a savings bank president of Canton, Ohio, and the author of Guide to Executors and Administrators in Ohio; Manual of Pensions; The Law Relating to Roads in Ohio; and War Claimant's Guide. He died April 14, 1888, in Canton, Ohio.
Rafferty, William
college president, was born in Ireland. In 1824 he was elected president of St. John's college, Annapolis, Md., which position he resigned in 1831.
Rafinesque, Constantine Smaltz
botanist, author, was born in 1784 in Turkey. He was an eccentric naturalist and botanist of French parentage who, after years of travel, settled in Philadelphia. Among his many works are Medical Flora of the United States; A Life of Travel and Researches; Annals of Kentucky; and Recent and Fossil Conchology. He died Sept. 18, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa.