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Rh afterward at Baskingridge. A son born at the former place m 1775 was named Washington, and his sister in her " Memoirs " declares that this must have been the first child named after the Father of his Country." Miss Morton possessed musical talent, and on a visit to Boston in 1794 she won Mr. Quincy's heart with a song; in a week from the day that he first met her and learned the fact of her existence he was engaged to be married to her. Mrs. Quincy was a charming and accomplished lady. In 1821, in compliance with the request of her" children, she wrote the memoirs of her early life. Forty years afterward the fragment of an autobiography thus begun was incorporated in the admirable memoir of Mrs. Quincy by her daughter, Eliza Susan. Mrs. Quincy's recollections of such incidents of the Revolutionary war as came within her childish ken are especially interesting. Their eldest son, Josiah, b. in Boston, 17 Jan., 1802; d. in Quincy, 2 Nov., 1882, was graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was mayor of Boston from 1845 to, and author of " Figures of the Past " (Bos- ton, 1882). His son, Josiah Phillips, b. in Bos- ton. 28 Nov., 1829, was graduated at Harvard in, and is the author of the dramas " Charicles " (Boston, 1856), "Lyteria" (1855), and a political essay on " The Protection of Majorities " (1876). Another son, Samuel Miller, b. in Boston in 1833; d. in 1887, was graduated at Harvard, was admitted to the Boston bar. and for several years edited the " Monthly Law Reporter." He entered the army as captain in the 2d Massachusetts regi- ment, 24 May, 1861, became lieutenant-colonel of the 73d U. S. colored regiment, 20 Oct., 1863, and its colonel, 24 May, 1864, and on 13 March, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He has edited the " Reports of Cases " of his great- grandfather, Josiah (1865). President Josiah's second son, Edmund, author, b. in Boston, 1 Feb., 1808; d. in Dedham, 17 May, 1877, was graduated at Harvard in 1827. He deserves especial mention for the excellent biography of his father, above mentioned. His novel " Wensley " (Boston, 1854) was said by Whittier to be the best book of the kind since the " Blithedale Romance." His con- tributions to the anti-slavery press for many years were able and valuable. His sister, Eliza Susan, b. in Boston, 15 Jan., 1798; d. at Quincy, 17 Jan., 1884, was her father's secretary for nearly half a century, and also furnished various papers to his- torical societies, and was well known for her chari- ties as well as for her literary qualities. From her diary, dating from 1810, her brothers drew mate- rial for their publications. She retained her vigor- ous intellect until her death, which occurred in the mansion of her grandmother. She issued a pri- vately printed memoir of her mother (Boston, 1864). Abraham Howard, editor, b. in Boston in November, 1767; d. in Washington, D. C., 11 Sept., 1840, was a grandson of Edmund, author of the " Treatise on Hemp Husbandry." From 1788 until 1813 he was engaged in mercantile business in Boston. In 1808 his interest in the disputes with Great Britain led him into the field of jour- nalism, and on 18 Nov. of that year he published the first number of a weekly paper entitled the "Columbian Detector." After 10 May, 1809, it was published twice a week. It was afterward merged in the "Boston Patriot." From 1828 to 1832 Mr. Quincy lived at Eastport, Me., where for a short time he edited the " Northern Light." In 1832. receiving an appointment in the navy depart- ment, he removed to Washington. See C. T. Coote's "Life and Character of A. II. Quiney" (Washington, 1840).

QUINCY, Josiah. lawyer, b. in Lenox, Mass., 7 March. 1793 ; d. in Rumney, N. II., 19 Jan.. 1875. Although prepared, he was unable to take a col- legiate course, and, on finishing his studies at the Lenox academy, he began at once the study of law in Stockbridge. "Shortly after his admission to the bar he removed to Rumney, N. H., where he spent the remainder of his life. In a few years he be- came one of the most successful lawyers in the state. He was frequently elected to the legislature, and for one year was president of the state senate. He was a man of great public spirit, and devoted much time to the promotion of the railway and educational interests of New Hampshire. Mr. Quincy was an active friend of the various enter- prises of the Baptist denomination, with which he was identified, serving for years as a trustee of Newton theological seminary.

QUINLAN, John, R. C. bishop, b. in Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, 19 Oct., 1826 ; d. in New Or- leans, La., 9 March, 1883. He received a good classical education, determined to study for the priesthood, and, with this view, emigrated to the United States in 1844. After a theological course in Mount St. Mary's seminary. Einmettsburg, Md., he was ordained a priest in 1853, and stationed at Piqua, Ohio, till 1855, when he was appointed as- sistant pastor of St. Patrick's church, Cincinnati. Shortly afterward he was made president of Mount St. Mary's college of the west, at the same time fill- ing the chairs of philosophy and theology. In 1859 he was nominated for the diocese of Mobile, and he was consecrated bishop on 4 Dec. At this time there were very few priests in the diocese, and he went to Europe in 1860 for the purpose of obtain- ing clerical aid, as well as of paying the customary visit to the pope. Bishop Quinlan was ardent in his devotion to the temporal and spiritual interests of both sides in the conflict, and after the battle of Shiloh hastened to the field in a special train with succor for the wounded. After the war he exerted himself for the reorganization of his diocese, al- most unaided. He built St. Patrick's and St. Mary's churches in Mobile, and erected others in dif- ferent places, besides restoring those that had been destroyed. He founded many convents and schools, and introduced various religious orders into his diocese. Bishop Quinlan took part in the canoni- zation of the Japanese martyrs in Rome in 1867, and was present at the Vatican council in 1869. He visited Rome again in 1882, and by contracting the Roman fever undermined his health. At the time of his death his diocese contained 40 priests, 36 churches, and about 13 convents and academies.

QUINN, James Cochrane, Canadian clergyman, b. near Belfast, Ireland, 27 May, 1845. He was educated at Queen's college and at the Presbyterian college. Belfast, and was ordained a minister in August, 1873. The same year he went to Newfoundland, and in 1874 to New Brunswick, and, after serving as a Presbyterian minister in that province, and Nova Scotia, removed to Manitoba in 1885, and was made pastor of the Presbyterian church at Emerson in that province. He had charge of a station for the American ornithological society at Bathurst, New Brunswick, and afterward of one at Emerson, introduced the system of ensilage into the counties of Northumberland and Gloucester, New Brunswick, and has been interested in improving the stock of sheep and cattle. He has published " Plain Words to Anxious Inquirers" (Toronto, 1888); "Hand-Book on Poultry " ; and tracts on temperance and other subjects.

QUINN, William, clergyman, b. in Donoughmore, County Donegal, Ireland, 21 May, 1820; d. in