Tuscola-Marquette County MI Archives Biographies.....Quinn, Timothy C. 1856 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

TIMOTHY C. QUINN, Prosecuting Attorney of Tuscola County, was born in Kingston,
Ontario, Canada, March 25, 1856, and is the third in a family of six children,
four of whom are still living. His father, John Quinn, was a native of Ireland,
and his mother, Mary (Donoghue) Quinn, was born in Canada of Irish ancestry.
When Timothy C. was about nine years old his parents moved to this State,
locating in Negaunee, Marquette County, where the father engaged in business as
a merchant. He survived until 1886, when he departed this life leaving to his
children the memory of an upright character and industrious temperament.
Although unable to give to the children all the educational advantages which
were desirable, it was always the effort of John Quinn to train them for
honorable positions in the business world, and to equip them with habits of
integrity and principles of honor.

  The subject of this sketch gained the rudiments of his education in the common
schools of his native place in Canada, where he passed his childhood years.
After he accompanied his parents to Michigan he was a pupil in the schools of
Negaunee, where he completed the course in the grammar school at fourteen years.
Feeling his education still insufficient to enable him to enter upon a
professional career, he became a student in the commercial college at Milwaukee,
and now has in his possession a certificate stating that he completed the course
of study in less than the usual time. In the fall of 1873 he entered the law
school of Albany, N. Y., where he improved his opportunities to the fullest
extent and was graduated in May, 1874, being then but barely eighteen years of
age, with permission to practice at the courts of New York. This college is a
part of the Union University of Schenectady, N. Y., and has sent forth many
graduates who have become influential as politicians, attorneys and statesmen.

  Returning to Marquette with the degree of LL. B., Mr. Quinn entered the law
office of Ball & Black, where he remained three years. Then, in the spring of
1877, he accompanied Mr. Black to Colorado, where he practiced law during the
summer. Returning to this State in the fall of the same year he located in Caro,
and with Mr. Black opened the law office of Black & Quinn, which continued until
the former gentleman was elected to the Michigan legislature. The extensive
practice which the two gentlemen had worked up by the exercise of energy,
industry and shrewd business talents, our subject continued alone until 1887.
when he formed a partnership with Judge Levi L. Wixson. Since the death of the
Judge, which occurred two years after the partnership with Mr. Quinn was formed,
our subject has practiced alone, and has maintained the reputation which he has
gained of good judgment and unusual legal abilities.

  On May 25, 1880, Mr. Quinn and Miss Catherine E. Morris were united in
marriage and their congenial union has brought to them two children: John
William, who was born in Caro April 15, 1882, and Henrietta Mary, also born in
Caro October 24,1891. Mrs. Quinn, whose estimable character and hospitable
manners endear her to those who come beneath her roof, is a native of Canada,
and the daughter of Dr. William and Henrietta Morris. She grew to womanhood in
Canada and the ceremony which united her destinies with those of our subject was
celebrated in Peterboro, Canada. Politically Mr. Quinn is a strong Democrat, and
was the only candidate elected in 1890 on the straight Democratic ticket, which
of itself indicates his popularity among his fellow-citizens.


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Extracted from:

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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