Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Quinn, James 1860 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JAMES QUINN was born in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada, March 18, 1860. He is a
son of Peter and Bridget (Hogarty) Quinn, both of whom were brought up in
Ireland and came to America some time previous to the birth of the original of
our sketch. Our subject was given a fair education in his native place,
attending the common schools of the town. As he grew in strength and stature he
was ambitious to make faster headway than seemed possible to him in the
Dominion, and in 1888 he came to the United States and proceeded to Tuscola
County, Mich., locating at once in Gagetown. Here he began for himself at the
age of twenty-five years. While still in Canada our subject was engaged as a
farmer and there associated with those who had learned the frugal ways of the
French and the thrifty and scientific methods of the English in developing the
resources of the ground. His efforts were rewarded with such success as could be
had in that country, which is too far north for the perfect development of
cereals and which produces more small fruits than anything else. He followed his
adopted calling for three or four years and then engaged in lumbering, that
business which has been the means of the accumulation of the greatest wealth of
the Canadians. Since coming to the United States our subject has been running a
sawmill; he also has a shingle and planing mill at Gagetown.

  Our subject is a devoted Catholic in his religious principles and belief and
in consonance with the rules of his church he does not identify himself with any
secret society.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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