HISTORY:QUIGGIN, George 1912 HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO
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George P. Quiggin
Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912
                          pg 897 Cincinnati, The Queen City
                       Transcribed by: Debbie Pentecost-McNabb
  

        George P. Quiggin, secretary of the Louisville and Cincinnati
Packet Company, is one of the oldest
river-traffic men in this vicinity. During the period of his
identification with this work he has seen
wrought many changes in river transportation, in addition to which he has
kept a full and accurate
account of river conditions, thus compiling a record of valuable
information. His birth occurred in
Newsburg, a town in the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1843. There he
was reared to manhood, acquiring
his preliminary education in the common schools, supplemented by a course
at Baldwin University. 
        In response to the call for volunteers in 1862, Mr. Quiggin
enlisted in Company D, Eighty-fourth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front, where he remained for
four months. Upon receiving his
discharge he returned home and for a year, thereafter taught in a
commercial college at Painsville, Ohio.
In 1865 he came to Cincinnati, locating here in the middle of December.
He subsequently accepted a
clerkship with W. G. McCoy, who was agent for the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, and he was also
connected with the United States Mail Line, the predecessor of the
Louisville & Cincinnati Packet
Company, 
        Having charge of the river traffic. About 1872 Mr. Quiggin became
associated with the
Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Company; then
operating in connection with the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. When this company purchased the
Louisville & Cincinnati Packet
Company. Mr. Quiggin joined their forces and in 1890 was elected
secretary of the company, in which
capacity he has ever since served. 
        For his wife Mr. Quiggin chose Florence Curtis, a daughter of
Herschel Curtis of Cincinnati, and
of this union there were born seven children, four of whom are living,
namely; Walter, George, Minnie,
the wife of Robert Carroll, of Dayton, Kentucky, and Bertha. 
        Fraternally he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, being a member of
Magnolia Lodge, No. 83, I. O. O. F., of Cincinnati and was district
deputy of the North Star Lodge of
Newport, before transferring his membership. Mr. Quiggin is one of the
most efficient traffic men in
this vicinity, being thoroughly familiar with and fully informed on every
phase of the business.





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