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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 147 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] Rev. James Quinn Newspap ["Joan L. Asche" Subject: [OH-FOOT] Rev. James Quinn Newspaper article. To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <3FA145C9.20608@aol.com> Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Message: #1 Passing this along. The Portsmouth Times February 15, 1859 Biography Rev. James Quinn. Daniel Scott, Esq. is writing a story of Highland county, which appears in weekly chapters through the columns of the Hillsboro Citizen. From the last number we clip the subjoined sketch of a man well known to all the pioneers, and gratefully remembered by many of their children. During the year 1807, Rev. James Quinn was on the Highland circuit for his second year, and as he was the first of the internerant preachers of the county, and deservedly venerated by all its people of the present day, and characteristics and anecdotes will doubtless be thankfully received. Rev. Mr. Quinn spent much of the prime of his life in Southern Ohio, and from his partiality to the people of our country, when he felt the winter of his earthly existence closing around him came to reside permanently among its smiling and peaceful hills, the better to enjoy the society and hospitality of its inhabitants. Hew was born, April 1st, 1775, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. His parents were from Ireland and, were among the first adventurers who crossed the mountains and formed the settlement at Red Stone. In this pioneer settlement, he learned the characteristics and native worth of the noble old pioneers, and among them he first learned the great truths, to the dissemination of which he early dedicated to his life. He was admitted into the traveling connection of the M. E. Church by the Baltimore Conference May, 1790. He was then a mere youth under twenty years of age, and was placed on the Greenfield circuit embracing Washington and Fayette counties in Pennsylvania. In the year 1800, he was appointed to the Pittsburgh circuit. In 1801, Mr. Quinn was ordained deacon at the Baltimore Conference, by Bishop Whatcoat and appointed to the Erie circuit, then for the first time supplied.--In 1802, he was sent to the Winchester circuit, Pennsylvania. The following year he was sent by Bishop Asbury to the Red Stone circuit, lying in the Allegheny mountains. In 1803, he was married. At the close of Mr. Quinn’s term at Red Stone, he was, at his own request, transferred to the Western Conference, and removed to Fairfield county, Ohio. The Western Conference, was that year held at a church near Cynthiana, Kentucky, in October, at which McKendress presided. At this session, James Quinn and John Meed were appointed to Hockhocking circuit, which then embraced vast and of course, almost a wilderness territory, covering nearly the whole of south-eastern Ohio. In 1805, he was returned to the same circuit, and the following year, he and Peter Cartwright were placed on the Scioto circuit, which included Highland County. In 1829, he purchased a farm on hundred acres in this county, to which he subsequently moved his family, and made his permanent home. The farm lies in the present township of Union. The house was the old fashioned hewed log with stone chimneys, and he named it Rural Cottage. At this quiet retreat, he died on the first day of December 1847--aged seventy-two years My Quinn is often spoken of by one the family of Mrs. Jane Trimble, who saw him at her cabin in 1807. He says: "I distinctly recollect the advent among us of the Rev. James Quinn, so long and so favorable known to the people of Highland. His youthful and manly form, his fine expression and amiable face--calm and dignified--yet flushed with zeal in his Master's cause--self-sacrificing and devoted itinerant preacher, on the first circuit of Highland, gathering up and watching over the scattered flock of humble and devoted Christians. He had first preached at old father Fitzpatrick's and had then come, across the woods, some six miles, to visit our family. His manners and exterior gave assurance of a gentleman, and his first words of salutation were a passport to the contidence, regard and esteem of all who made his acquaintance. His visit was a most pleasant and agreeable surprise to the younger members of the family, who felt at once the mesmeric influence of his mild, persuasive language and unobtrusive worth. Such was then James Quinn, who lived to impress, indelibly, his excellence and his virtues upon the hearts of all who lived under his ministry. "He made an appointment to preach at our cabin--perhaps on his next circuit--notice of which was given out at the "raisings' and "huskings" through the settlement. It was quite a novelty; and, of course, a stirring event in the neighborhood, and at the time specified, he had a large and attentive audience.--The costume of the young gentlemen and ladies in attendance at that meeting was somewhat different from the prevailing fashions of the present era, and particularly well adapted to the manners and customs of the pioneer settlement, who frugality and economy were virtues of necessity, and when none indulged in the luxuries of foreign merchandise. While Mr. Quinn remained, my brother, who had purchased a violin, and was taking lessons from uncle Tom, who had the characteristic fondness of his race for music, frequently accompanied favorite hymns on the instrument to which Mr. Quinn listened with apparent satisfaction. On his subsequent visit, he brought with him a brother in the ministry, by the name of LADD, a tall, dark haired, sallow complicated man ,who spoke in sadness, and whose salutations were in deep-drawn sighs and constant groans. He was the exact antipodes of his friend, Mr. Quinn, and stood out in bold relief and sombre contrast to that mild and amiable gentleman. It was early evening when they arrived and a cordial greeting awaited them by the family. Seated before the wide and spacious hearth, (for it was early winter) Mr. Quinn was polite, sociable and agreeable to all, while his sombre and Rev. companion was absorbed in deep and profound meditation, in distant and cold reserve. I recoiled, instinctively from his presence, and stood near Mr.Quinn, whose hand was immediately laid familiarly on my flaxen head. The eyes of the melancholy preacher were rolling around the apartment, scrutinizing its arrangements and appurtenances. At length with surprise and harrow, they rested upon the head of the violin, which was projecting from the canopy of the bed curtains. Striding across the room, his eyes steadily fixed on the object, he easily brought it down from its perch, and contemplating it with a severe, and withering frown of apparent sorrow and a deep indignant groad, walked, with a stern stop, back to the quiet circle with the ill fated "harp of a thousand strings" (at least sounds) in his grasp, and demanded, in deep, hoarse, sepulchral tones, whose "devil's instrument is this that has a place in this house.” The shock to ears polite and to the hospitable hearth, was rude and unlooked for. The owner with much deference, explained both his own interest in it, and the innocent uses to which its melodious tones were applied, but it required the kind and gentle interposition of Mr. Quinn to save the unoffending instrument, from a hasty and ignominious immolation in the fire, for the wrath of brother Ladd was great. That was the first and last visit Mr. Ladd to Clear Creek, and I never heard of him afterwards." Joan L. Asche Happy Halloween Please visit my Halloween Greeting Sites: http://www.jasche.com/halloween.html Is Today Your Birthday? http://www.jasche.com/birthday.htm Please visit my site at: http://www.jasche.com This site contains Philly maps and lots of PA. & OH Info. The Asche Family Website: http://wwwjasche.com/AscheFamily.html Please visit: http://www.jasche.com/hamiltoncounty.html for Hamilton County, Ohio Resources Please visit: http://rootsweb.com/~ohcnewma/ for New Market Twp. and Highland County data HELP KEEP GENEALOGY FREE!!! 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