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 QUINT. QUINT. 497 QUINT, ALONZO Hall, son of George anil Sally VV. (Hall) Quint, was born in Barnstead, Belknap county, N. H., March 22, 1 828, his parents' residence being Dover, N. H. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846 ; read medicine in Dover eighteen months, and studied in mechanical work later. He was graduated from An- dover Theological Seminary in 1852, and took the post-graduate year ; was ordained pastor of the Central Congregational church, Jamaica Plain, Boston, December 2 7> lS S3, which church accepted his resig- nation in May, 1S63. He was chaplain of the 2d Massachusetts infantry, from 1861 to '64, and was offici- allv mentioned for good conduct in several severe engagements. He was installed pastor of the North Congregational church, New Bedford, in 1S64, and resigned because of ill health, after eleven years' service. He returned to New Hampshire, and later on engaged in literary work. From 1S81 to '84 he was in charge of the Broadway church, Somerville. He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1881 to '85, serving as chairman of the railroad com- mittee in his second term. To his efforts was due in a great measure the enactment of the " lease law " and the " railroad commissioner law." In 1886 he became the pastor of the Allston Congregational church, where he still remains. Mr. Quint was a member of the state board of education from 1855 to '61. He was at that time chairman of the West Roxbury school board, tie was also chair- man of the Dover (N. H.) school board, after his return to New Hampshire, until his res- ignation in 1884. He served as a manager of the Congregational Publishing Society twenty-one years, and has been a director (now senior) in the American Congrega- tional Association twenty-five years ; has been secretary of the board of Ministerial Aid from its origin in 1868; secretary of the Massachusetts General Association of con- gregational Churches twenty-five years ; was chairman of the committee to draft the constitution for a national Congrega- tional council. He opened its first session in Oberlin, Ohio, 1S71, and was its secre- tary the next twelve years ; issued the national statistics of the Congregational churches from 1859 to '84, except during the war. He received the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1866. He has been a trus- tee of Dartmouth since 1870. Mr. Quint was the first New England man mustered into the Grand Army of the Republic, and helped to form Post 1, New Bedford ; he has since been prominent in G. A. R. coun- cils ; was its first chaplain-in-chief ; and on its committee to frame its constitutions ; was chaplain of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Free Masons from 1869 to '80. He was chaplain and preacher for the An- ALONZO H. QUINT. cient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1884 ; he preached the election sermon be- fore the Legislature of 1866 ; and later, the sermon before the Congregational con- vention. He was chaplain at the dedica- tion of the soldiers' monument, Boston Common, and has delivered many more memorial addresses that have been pub- licly mentioned. Besides various sermons and other ad- dresses, he has published three volumes of his works : " The Potomac and Rapidan," " The Record of the 2d Massachusetts In- fantry," and ''The First Parish, Dover, N. H., 1633-188;,." He was joint editor and owner of " The Congregational Quar- terly " from 1859 to '75. He has contrib- uted numerous articles of local New Hamp- shire history and on denominational polity. He is a corresponding member of the New Hampshire and New York Historical socie- ties, and of the Maine Genealogical Society,