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 49<5 PUTNEY. QUA. He has been a trustee of the New Salem Academy since 1880, and is now president of the board ; was a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, 1875, and has been trial justice for Franklin county. Mr. Putnam married, in New Salem, July 14, 1862, Nellie I,., daughter of David Bur- nett, of New Salem. He has two children : Willard A. and Bertrand F. Putnam. PUTNEY, LYMAN K., son of Joseph and Mary (Winch) Putney, was born in Troy, Cheshire county, N. H., August 2, 1833- He received a common school education in the public schools of those days. At fifteen years of age he began to learn the trade of woolen manufacturer, and worked steadily at this for three years. In 185 1 he went to Boston and worked in the mar- ket there three years, then started in the business of trucking, which he has since followed. He has also the management of his large stock and dairy farm, the im- proving of his real estate, etc. He is treasurer and manager of the Wel- lesley Co-operative Creamery Company. Mr. Putney was married in Boston, April 3, 1858, to Abbie A., daughter of William and Louisa (Aldrich) Marshall. Their children are : Alice M., Henry M., and Ethel W. Putney. Mr. Putney was selectman four years in Needham, has been selectman in Wellesley seven years, assessor two years, and is still in office. He is a member of the Wellesley water commission, and was a member of the (leneral Court from Needham in 1880, and from Wellesley in 1883. A prominent member of the F. & A. M., and a member of Newton R. A. Chapter ; he is also a member and officer I. O. ( >. I ., and was two years district deputy for the 28th district. He is also an active working member of the Needham Farmers' and Me- chanics' Association, having been its secre- tary three years and president four years. He is now serving his second term as master of Wellesley Grange. QUA, Francis Winnie, son of Robert and Jane (Moncrief) Qua, was born in Lisbon, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., Sep- tember 2, 1845. He was educated in the district schools and m the institute at Ogdensburgh, N. Y. He began business life clerking in a boot and shoe store in Waddington, N. Y. At sixteen years of age he taught school in Lisbon and the neighboring towns, and at twenty began the study of law with George G. Simonds, Madrid, N. Y. In 1867 he went to McGregor, Iowa, and studied with Willis Drummond. Later he was principal of the North McGregor school, and afterwards principal of the grammar school at Ogdensburgh, N. Y. Failing health compelled him to abandon teaching, ami he entered the office of the Central Vermont Railroad and remained there two years. He was subsequently connected with the " Franklin County Times," Green- field. He finally resumed the study of law with Austin De Wolfe, Greenfield, went to Lowell in 1877, and was admitted to the bar in 1S78. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1888, serving as chair- man of the committee on towns, and was re-elected in 18S9, being appointed to the committees on manufactures and rules, and chairman of the committee on pro- bate and insolvency. FRANCIS W. QUA. Mr. Qua was married in Ogdensburgh, N., September 16, 1S79, to Alice L., daughter of Michael and Alary Ann (Call) Harder. They have one child : Stanley E. Qua.