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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 224, 226
phot p. 225


ARTHUR D. QUAINTANCE.

	From pioneer times the name of Quaintance has figured upon the 
pages of Colorado's history and through the intervening years has stood 
as a synonym for progress and advancement in public affairs. The family 
is of English origin and was originally of the Quaker faith. The first 
representative of the name in America came to the new world from 
England many generations ago. The grandfather, Jesse Quaintance, was a 
pioneer of Colorado who removed to the west after living originally in 
Ohio. He arrived in this state in the latter '60s and established one 
of the first flour mills within the borders of Colorado, conducting 
business at Golden, where he continued to reside until called to his 
final home. He was the father of Brough P. Quaintance, who was born in 
Ohio and who accompanied his parents to Colorado during the pioneer 
epoch in the history of the state. When the family made the trip the 
grandfather brought with him across the plains, with an ox team, two 
large stones for crushing ore in Clear Creek and Black Hawk canyon and 
was engaged in that business in early days but subsequently established 
his flour mill. After the death of the grandfather B. P. Quaintance 
conducted the mill for a number of years and was also postmaster at 
Golden for sixteen years, while for two years he filled the office of 
county treasurer there. In a word he has been a prominent and 
influential resident of that locality, where he is still engaged in the 
real estate and insurance business and is in charge of the Golden 
Building & Loan Association. In his business career he has ever been 
actuated by a spirit of advancement that has enabled him to utilize all 
the means at hand and to take advantage of opportunities that others 
have passed heedlessly by. His fellow townsmen, appreciative of his 
worth and ability, have frequently called him to public office and in 
each position that he has filled he has rendered valuable service to 
the community. For some time he was city clerk and city treasurer as 
well as county treasurer. In politics he has ever been a stanch 
republican, giving unfaltering allegiance to the party, which he has 
supported since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. In early 
manhood he wedded Annie Belmore, a native of Maine and a descendant of 
one of the old families of Calais, Maine, of English and Scotch 
lineage. Mrs. Quaintance also survives and she has reared a family of 
four children, three sons and a daughter: Charles P., now a resident of 
Golden, president of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and Improvement 
Association, secretary of the Golden Building & Loan Association, and 
secretary of the Herold China & Pottery Company, now the leading 
manufacturers of chemical porcelain in this country; Arthur D., who was 
born in Golden, Colorado, October 17, 1884; Cregar B., who is an 
attorney at law practicing in Denver; and Caroline, now the wife of R. 
S. Ransom, a prominent mining engineer of Newark, New Jersey, and New 
York city.

	Arthur D. Quaintance, whose name introduces this review, at the 
usual age became a public school pupil. After leaving the high school 
of Golden he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for 
preparation for the bar and won his LL. B. degree there upon graduation 
with the class of 1906. In the meantime, however, he had started out in 
the business world, being first employed in construction work on the 
Moffat Railroad, and it was in that way that he provided the means that 
enabled him to pursue his university course. He was ambitious to enter 
professional life and immediately after his graduation from law school 
he established himself in the practice of his profession in Denver, 
where he has since remained. Advancement at the bar is proverbially 
slow yet within a comparatively short space of time Mr. Quaintance had 
won recognition as an able young lawyer whose powers were rapidly 
developing and who was proving his ability to successfully cope with 
intricate legal problems. He belongs to the Denver Bar Association and 
to the Colorado State Bar Association and the former has honored him 
with election to a vice presidency. Aside from his law practice he is a 
director of the White Automobile Company of Colorado.

	Mr. Quaintance gives his political support to the republican 
party and at the primary election, 1916, was presented as a candidate 
for district attorney for the first judicial district of Colorado. 
Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason, loyally adhering to the 
teachings and purposes of the craft. A member of Denver Consistory No. 
2, he has been a close student of the mysteries of Masonic lore and has 
been honored with official position as grand orator, the duties of 
which, he is especially well qualified to perform. As a public speaker, 
he is forceful and pleasing and, in this connection it may be noted 
that during his course of study at the University of Michigan, he was 
honored with the presidency of the Jefferson Society, the well known 
oratorical and debating society of the university. He is also connected 
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective 
Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World. He belongs to the First 
Presbyterian church of Golden, in which he has served as treasurer for 
several years. That he is much interested in the welfare and progress 
of his adopted city is Indicated in the fact that he holds membership 
in the Denver Civic and Commercial Association and cooperates in all of 
its plans and purposes to upbuild the city, to extend its trade 
relations and uphold its civic standards. He deserves much credit for 
what he has accomplished since starting out in life unaided, his 
persistency of purpose, his laudable ambition and his indefatigable 
energy gaining for him the place that he now occupies as a valued 
representative of the legal profession in Denver.