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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.