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who had entrusted their savings to the church, and in reducing the mortgage debt to §7000. He was a member of the first provincial council held by Archbishop Hughes in 185-1; was delegate apostolic to the second plenary council of Bal- timore, held by Archbishop Spalding in 1866. and was one of the pro-curators of the clergy in the third New York synod, September, 1868. On May 1. 1873, he succeeded the Very Rev. William Storrs. deceased, as pastor of St. Patrick's cathe- dral. New York city, and as li vicar-general of the diocese. yi During the ab-

sence of Cardinal McCloskey in 1875 and 1878, he administered the affairs of the archdiocese. He retained his office under Arch-

bisliop Corrigan, and was in charge of the financial matters con- nected witii the completion of the new St. Pat- rick's cathedral. In May, 1881, he was made private chamberlain to the pope and in December, 1881. domestic prelate. His name was proposed as a successor to Archbishop Purcell of Cincin- nati. His health failed in 1886, and he died at Paris. France, April 15, 1887.

QUINT, Alonzo Hall, clergyman, was born in Barnstead. N.H.. March 22. 1828; son of George and Sally W, (Hall) Quint. He was graduated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1846, A.M., 1849, and from Andover Theological seminary in 1852. He was licensed to preach in 1852; was ordained to the ministry, Dec. 27, 1853; was married, Jan. 30, 1S54, to Rebecca P. Putnam of Salem, Mass., and was pastor of the Mather church, Roxbury, Mass., 1853-63: chaplain of the 2nd Massachusetts volun- teers, 1861-64; pastor of the North church. New Bedford, Mass., 1864-75; a representative in the New Hampshire state legislature, 1881-83; pastor of the Allston Congregational church, Boston, 1886-90; instructor in homiletics at Auburn Theological seminary, N.Y., 1890-91, and at Andover Theological seminary, 1892-94. He was secretary of the National Council of Congrega- tional Churches, from Dover, 1871-83; moderator of the National Council, 1892-95; secretary of the Massachusetts General Association of Congrega- tional Churches, 1856-61: was elected general director of the American Congregational associa- tion in 1859. and was a member of the Massa- chusetts Historical society, 1859-80. He was a trustee of Dartmouth college, 1870-96, and a

visitor of Andover Tiieological seminary, 1892-96. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Dartmoutli in 1866. He was editor and proprietor of the Congregational Quarterly. 1859- 76, and editor of the Congregational Yearbook for many years. He contributed articles to the Dover Inquirer, and is the author of: The Poto- mac and the Rapidan, or Army Notes from the Failure at Winchester to the Re-enforcement of iZosecrans (1864); Records of the Second Massa- chusetts Infantry 1801-65 (1861), unii First Parish in Dover, X.H. (1883). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 4. 1896.

QUINTARD, Charles Todd, second bishop of Tennessee and 75tli in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Stamford, Conn., Dec. 22, 1824; son of Isaac Quintard. He attended Trinity parish school. New York city: studied medicine under James R. Wood and Valentine Mott, and was graduated from the medical depart- ment of the University of the City of New York, M.D., in 1847. He established himself in practice at Athens, Ga.. and in 1851 was elected professor of physiology and pathological anatomy in the medical college, Memphis, Tenn.. and with Dr. Ayres P. Merrill edited the Memphis Medical Recorder. Determining to enter the cliurch, he prepared under Bishop James Hervey Otey. and was admitted to the diaconate in 1855, and ad- vanced to the priesthood in 1856. He was assist- ant at Calvary, Memphis, 1857-58; rector of the Church of the Advent, Nashville, 1858-61, and ia 1861 was chosen chaplain of the 1st Tennessee regiment, serving both as chaplain and surgeon. Upon the death of Bishop Otey, April 23. 1863, he returned to his duties as rector of the Church of the Advent. He was elected bishop of the diocese of Tennessee, and was consecrated at St. Luke's church, Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1865, by- Bishops Hopkins, Burgess, and Atkinson, as- sisted by Bishops Odenheimer, Bedell, Stevens, Coxe, and Fulford of Montreal, Canada. It was through his untiring efforts, especially in Eng- land at the time of the Lambeth conference of 1867, that funds were secured to re-establish the University of the South Sewanee, Tenn. He was first president (vice-chancellor) of the University. 1867-72, and chairman of the board of trustees and of the executive committees, 1867-98. He re-organized the institution for girls founded by Bishop Otey at Columbia, Tenn., besides inter- esting himself in general educational advance- ment throughout the state. The Rev. Thomas Frank Gailor (q.v.) was elected his coadjutor, April 20, 1893. He received the degree of D.D. from Columbia in 1806 and from the University of tiie South in 1878 and that of LL.D. from Cam- bridge, England, in 1867. He died in Meridian- viUe, Ala., Feb. 15, 1898.