QCINBY
QUINCY
and vice-president of that institution. 1879-86.
He was married to Elizabeth G., daughter of
Gen. John L. Gardner, U.S.A. He revised the
books of the Robinson course of niatheiuatics, and
wrote the treatise on the calculus. He died in
Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 18, 1891.
QUINBY, Watson Fell, author, was born in Brandy wine Springs, Del., Dec. 15, 18i35 ; son of Dr. John and Elizabeth Starr (Phillips) Quinby ; grandson of Moses and Jane (Fell) Quinby, and of William D. and Phebe (Starr) Phillips, and a de- scendant of John Quinby of Westchester county, N.Y., member of the first New York assembly. He matriculated at Haverford college for the junior class of 1843 and left in 1843 without graduating, to enter Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1847. He crossed the plains in 1849 with a party of California pioneers and lived for some years in mining camps in the mountains. He was mar- ried, Feb. 23, 1855, to Annie, daughter of James and Mary (Foote) Giffen of New Castle Co., Del., and afterward practiced medicine in Wilming- ton, Del. He is the author of : Mongrelism (1876) ; The Coming Kingdom (1878); Solomon's Seal (1880): A Solution of the Circle (1885); Weights and Measures (1885); Silver (1885); Greek Names in America (1888); The Yard or the Metre, Which Will Ye Choose? (1891).
QUINBY, William Emory, diplomatist and journalist, was born at Brewer, Maine, Dec. 14, 1835 ; son of Daniel Franklin andArazina (Reed) Quinby ; grandson of Benjamin Franklin and Phoebe (Larrabee) Quinby, and of Samuel Webb and Sarah (Kidder) Reed, and a descend- ant of William Quinby, who settled in Connecti- cut in 1650. He removed with his father to Detroit, Mich., in 1850; attended the literary department of Gregory's Commercial college, Detroit ; was graduated from the University of Michigan, A.B., 1858, A.M., 1861, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1859. He was married, in April, 1860, to Adeline Frazier. As a boy he assisted his father in publishing the Literary Miscellany, and in 1861 obtained employment with the Detroit Free Press, becoming manag- ing-editor in 1863, and general manager, editor- in-chief, and principal owner in 1873. He was U.S. minister to The Netherlands, 1893-97. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by tlie University of Michigan in 1896.
QUINCY, Josiah, patriot, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 23, 1744; son of Josiah and Hannah (Sturgis) Quincy ; grandson of Edmund and Dorothy (Flynt) Quincy ; great-grandson of Ed- mund and Elizabeth (Gookin) Eliot Quincy, and greats-grandson of Edmund and Judith (Pares) Quincy, the immigrants. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1763, A.M., 1766, when he de-
livered his master's oration "Patriotism," his
first oration in English, in which he demonstra-
ted unusual power as an orator. He studied law
under Oxenbridge Thacher in Boston, and prac-
tised in Boston, 1766-73. His political views
rendering him obnoxious to the supreme court
of the province, his
name was omitted in
the distribution of
the honors of the
gown. He was mar-
ried in October, 1779,
to Abigail, daughter
of William PhiUips.
On March 5, 1770, the
difiiculties between
citizens of Boston and
the British soldiers,
known as the Boston
massacre, occurred,
and the citizens were
clamorous for ven-
geance against Cap-
tain Preston and the
though sympathizing
'i^cJv XMU4*<y
accused soldiers. A!-
with the citizens, Mr.
Quincy was selected by Captain Preston to de-
fend his cause and that of the soldiers in the
courts, against the earnest remonstrance of his
father. This difficult task he shared with John
Adams, who joined him as elder counsel. The
trial began, Oct. 24, 1770, and concluded with the
acquittal of Captain Preston, Oct. 30, 1770.
Two of his men, however, were found guilty of
manslaughter and branded in the hand. The
popular resentment against Quincy and Adams
was intense and publicly manifested whenever
they appeared in the streets of Boston. In 1773
illness necessitated a change of climate, and he
took passage by sea to Charleston. S.C., Feb. 8,
1773. On his return he journeyed through North
Carolina, Virginia, Marj'land, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New Y'ork, being much benefited in
health. In November, 1773, the British tea ships
arrived in Boston Harbor, and the committee of
correspondence held a meeting at the Old South
Meeting house, Dec. 16, 17.73, where Quincy and
Samuel Adams spoke against the obnoxious
measures of the British government. While the
speaking proceeded, forty or fifty men, disguised
as Indians, marched past the Meeting house to
take possession of the tea ships and cast three
hundred and forty chests of tea into the bay. As
they were passing. Mr. Quincy paused a moment
and then said : "' I see the clouds which now rise
thick and fast upon our horizon, the thunders
roll, the liglitnings play, and to that God who
rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm, I
commit my country." On Sept. 28, 1774, he em-
barked on board the Boston Packet on a confi-
