Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Quinn, William J. 1856 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILLIAM J. QUINN.

   William J. Quinn, a well-to-do farmer, who lives on rural route No. 2, out of
Flora, in Carrollton township, Carroll county, Indiana, is a native of the
county, born on April 4, 1856, six miles east of Flora.

   Mr. Quinn is the son of William and Mary (Duncan) Quinn, the former of whom
was born in Ireland, July 1, 1814, and who, in 1818, accompanied his parents to
the United States. They first settled in Hamilton county, Ohio, but later
emigrated to Carroll county, Indiana, during the early thirties. There the late
William Quinn spent the balance of his life. A young man when the family came to
Carroll county, William Quinn was later married to Mary Duncan, and to them were
born nine children, six of whom are now living: Sarah E., the widow of Alexander
Burk, of Chicago, Illinois; Julia, the wife of Thomas Larimore, of Burlington
township; David M., a farmer of Carrollton township; William J., the subject of
this sketch; John L., a farmer of Carrollton township, and Carry W., who lives
on the old home farm.

   Reared on the farm and educated in the public schools of Carroll county,
William J. Quinn was married on September 30, 1886, to Julia Hale, a native of
Cass county, Indiana, and the daughter of Joseph Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Quinn have
been the parents of five children, only two of whom are now living, Maud, the
wife of Walter Wharton, of Monroe township, and Lester H., a graduate of the
Flora high school and now a student in Valparaiso University at Valparaiso,
Indiana. Three children are deceased.

   A short time after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Quinn moved to the farm of
sixty acres, where they now live and which they now own. They are both members
of the Presbyterian church at Wheeling. Mr. Quinn is both an elder in the church
and treasurer of the congregation. Both he and his wife are active in religious
work and liberal contributors to the support of the church and interested in
both the work of the church and Sunday school. Although Mr. Quinn votes the
Republican ticket and is a man whose political opinions carry weight in the
neighborhood where he lives, he has never aspired to office. He is a good man, a
good citizen and extremely popular in the neighborhood.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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