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Quackenbos, George Payn – Quigg, Lemuel E

Quackenbos, George Payn

educator, author, was born Sept. 4, 1826, in New York city. He was an educator of New York city, and the author of School History of the United States; Natural Philosophy; a series of English grammars; and An Advanced Course of Rhetoric. He died July 24, 1881, in Merrimack county, N. Y.

Quackenbos, John Duncan

educator, author, was born April 22, 1848, in New York city. He was an adjunct professor of English literature at Columbia college from 1884, and the author of Illustrated History of the World; History of the English Language; History of Ancient Literature; and Practical Rhetoric.

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.

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.

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.