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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, 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.

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, 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

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.

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.