Biographical Sketch of John Quigley, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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John Quigley, civil engineer, etc., was born in the state of Maine in
the year 1827. In early boyhood he moved to Pennsylvania, settling in
Susquehanna County, where he received his literary and scientific ed-
ucation, acquiring a thorough knowledge of practical engineering and
surveying under the instruction of the distinguished professor King. In
1847, he moved to Dubuque, Iowa, and in the following year entered the
government employ as a surveyor, a business which he pursued for many
years with marked success. Many of the important lines in the State of
Iowa were run by him. In this experience, in common with his associat-
es, he encountered many difficulties and dangers from the hostilities
of the Indians, who harassed and often destroyed the settlers, but,
seemed especially inimical to the surveying parties. In his capacity
as civil engineer he has done a vast amount of work on different rail-
roads in the West. In 1854, he took a contract of subdivisions, and
so well and faithfully was the work performed that was complimented by
the Inspector of Public Surveys on the efficiency of his work, and de-
clared to have done the best surveying accomplished that year. In con-
sequence of danger from the treachery of the Indians, the business of
surveying was temporarily suspended. He was then offered a partnership
in the large mercantile house of his brother-in-law, Lawrence Maloney,
of Dubuque, Iowa. In view, however, of his prospects of securing a
large contract in his own line of business, he decided to decline the
proposition, and continued the pursuit of his profession. In 1865, he
came to St. Joseph.

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