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Author: B. F. Johnson (1909)

Edward Gale Quina

    Our subject, Edward Gale Quina, who is a grandson of Desiderio Quina, was
born in Escambia county, near Pensacola, on October 22, 1878, and although a
young man in years, he has exercised and developed a business sagacity, and
judgment that gives him rank among the older and more prominent men in his
section of the State.

    The Quina family has been identified with Pensacola for more than a hundred
years. In 1780 before the close of the American Revolution and while Florida was
still Spanish territory Desiderio Quina, a native of the city of Rome, Italy,
came to Pensacola and made it his home. The family also has some French
connections.

    Edward Gale Quina, Sr., the father of our subject, was a man of considerable
influence and position, holding as he did the honorable office of Mayor of
Pensacola, and serving for a length of time as representative in the State
Senate, and House of Representatives. He was a prominent insurance man, and to
him the city of Pensacola owes its first electric plant and its valuable system
of waterworks, both of which he built. Mr. Quina was married to Miss Alice
Swaine, a daughter of Edward and Margaret Swaine.

    Young Quina attended the local public schools and when ready for college
matriculated at Spring Hill College where he remained for two terms. His first
employment was with the L. & N. Railway as messenger boy. In 1902 he engaged in
a large furniture business, which was established in 1888, associating with
himself Mr. Frank Marston, under the firm name, Marston and Quina. The firm is
still doing business and is regarded with confidence by the patrons and in the
commercial world.

    Mr. Quina is not only a progressive man in the trade, but has held several
enviable and important positions in his home town. He is recognized as a
promoter and developer of hotels and various other important enterprises in
Pensacola. He has been a member of the city executive committee since 1908, was
a Director of the Carnival Mardi Gras Association for eight years, and was
honored by being made King of the Carnival in 1907.

    Following the faith of his forefathers, Mr. Quina is a good Romanist, and
attends the Catholic Church regularly. He belongs to several fraternal orders
and social clubs, among which are the Elks, the Country Club, Osceola Club,
Concordia Club and the Y. M. C. A.

    Apart from his active and successful business enterprises, Mr. Quina has
found time to indulge in much reading, and enjoys most of all the current
magazines and newspapers as a means of acquiring a broad and general fund of
knowledge. He is a public spirited citizen, and a useful member of society. He
is young yet but the future holds many promises of advancement for him, which by
his own ability he is sure to bring to fulfillment.


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FLORIDA EDITION
MAKERS OF AMERICA
AN HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORK BY AN ABLE CORPS OF WRITERS
VOL. III.
Published under the patronage of 
The Florida Historical Society, Jacksonville, Florida

ADVISORY BOARD:
HON. W. D.  BLOXHAM
COL. FRANK HARRIS
HON. R. W. DAVIS
SEN. H. H. McCREARY
HON. F. P. FLEMING
W. F. STOVALL
C. A. CHOATE, SECRETARY

1909
A. B. CALDWELL
ATLANTA, GA.

COPYRIGHT 1909
B. F. JOHNSON

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