Brooks-Macon County GaArchives Biographies.....Quinn, George Webster 1877 - living in 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 27, 2004, 12:08 pm Author: William Harden p. 967-968 GEORGE WEBSTER QUINN. A prominent member of the agricultural community of Hickory Head district, George Webster Quinn holds an assured position among the successful and progressive farmers and stock-raisers of Brooks county, where he was born, his birth having occurred March 10, 1877. His father, Dr. Gideon Quinn, was reared in Georgia, in the vicinity of Augusta, and there received his elementary education. Leaving home at the age of eighteen years, he spent three years in Mississippi, and on returning to Georgia entered the Atlanta Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. He subsequently practised a short time in Warren county, Georgia, in Alabama, and in Louisiana. On his return to Georgia, Dr. Quinn located in Montezuma, Macon county, and during the Civil war gave up his local practice to serve as a surgeon in the Confederate army. Removing to Brooks county in 1867, the doctor purchased a plantation in the Hickory Head district, and was here a resident until his death, in 1888. Dr. Quinn married Araville Concord Aminta Ivey, who was born about forty miles from the city of Augusta, a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Buckholten) Ivey. Her father was a native of Virginia, his mother of south Georgia, and both spent the closing year of their lives near Augusta. She survived the doctor nearly a quarter of a century, passing away March 16, 1911. Eight children were born of their union, namely: Charles, deceased; Ada; Eula; Terry, deceased; David, deceased; Cora; Samuel; and George Webster. Acquiring a good education in his youthful days, George Webster Quinn began his active career at the age of eighteen years, for awhile being bookkeeper for a naval stores company in Tallahassee, Florida. Returning to Brooks county, he accepted a position in a mercantile establishment in Quitman. Tiring of clerical work, Mr. Quinn came back to the soil, beginning life as an independent farmer on rented land. Energetic and wide-awake, he paid close attention to his chosen work, and was well rewarded for his labors. He had in a comparatively brief time saved a sufficient sum to warrant him in buying one hundred and forty acres of land, and he has since continued buying at intervals, and now has title to two thousand acres of good land in the Hickory Head district. Fourteen hundred acres of his property are fenced, and well stocked with cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, while all of his farms are amply supplied with the machinery and implements required by an up-to-date agriculturist. Well educated, and an intelligent reader, Mr. Quinn keeps apace with the times in regard to current events, and takes much interest in local matters. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/brooks/bios/gbs455quinn.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb