David Morrill Quimby of Exeter, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Louise Temples - pc_genie@ix.netcom.com Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************ Full copyight notice - http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915 Page 1054 See the portrait of David Morrill Quimby at http://www.usgwarchives.net/nh/rockingham/biopics/QuimbyDavidMorrell.jpg DAVID MORRILL QUIMBY, in former years a well known and pop- ular citizen of Exeter, N. H., engaged in the jewelry trade, was born in that part of Salisbury, Mass., that is now Amesbury, July 22, 1821. He was a son of James and Abigail (Morrill) Quimby, the former of whom came from Meredith, N. H., the mother being a native of Salisbury, Mass. The father was a merchant by occupation: Their children were Zebedee, James, Abi- gail, Susan, David M. and Mary Ann. David M. Quimby, equipped with a grammar school education, learned the jeweler's trade in his youth with his brother, who conducted a jeweler's store in Exeter. He subsequently worked some years for other people, and finally entered into business for himself in Exeter, continuing it for about forty-five years, with prosperous results. He died at the age of seventy-six years, on March 22, 1897, leaving a fair competence to his widow. He was twice married: first to Jemimah Leavett, of Exeter. His second wife, who survives him, was in maidenhood Betsey H. Bartlett, a native of Salisbury, Mass., and daughter of James P. and Priscilla A. (Jewell) Bart- lett, her father, who was a Massachusetts man, being a shoemaker by trade. The mother was a native of Maine. Their children were Francis L., Betsey H. (or Bessie, as she was usually called), William P., Susan L. and Annie L. Mr. Quimby was a Unitarian in religious belief and his widow also attends that church.