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.