BIO: William L. QUINN, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 241-242.
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  WILLIAM L. QUINN, M.D., Wilsontown (P. O. Cottage), Huntingdon 
county, Pa., was born in West township, September 25, 1871, son of 
William and Susan (Le Van) Quinn. His grandfather, whose name was also 
William Quinn, was a native of Maryland, and of Scotch-Irish descent; 
he was a shoemaker. His political adherence was to the Whip party; and 
he was a member of the Presbyterian church. His first wife was a Miss 
Muthersbaugh, by whom he had four children: James; William; Edgar; and 
Mary A. After the death of his first wife, William Quinn married a Miss 
Rice; her children were: Jacob; Lemuel; Henry; John; Nancy; Emma; 
Melissa. He died in Fairfield, Huntingdon county, where his second wife 
also died. His second son, William Quinn, was born in 1823, received a 
common school education, and learned the trade of his father, at which 
he worked all his life in Wilsontown. His politics were Republican. He 
took some part in the affairs of the community, and evidently enjoyed 
the confidence of his fellow citizens, being elected auditor, and 
member of school and election boards. William Quinn (2) was married, 
October 2, 1845, to Ann Clayton, a lady of Scotch-Irish family; their 
children were: Agnes, wife of Robert Armstrong, farmer, of Logan 
township; Lydia; and George, both of whom died young. His wife dying, 
July 13, 1850, Mr. Quinn was again married, in 1855, to Miss Le Van; 
she is the daughter of Peter and Rebecca (Grau) Le Van; her father was 
a merchant, of French descent. Her children are: Wallace C., M. D., of 
Jefferson county, a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Baltimore, Md.; Lillie (Mrs. John Baumgardner0, has five children, 
Lottie, Nannie, Eva, Grace, deceased, and Gertrude: William: Theodore, 
deceased; Florence A., deceased; Luther Le Van, deceased; and Anna M., 
deceased. The father died in 1887. He was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, and a faithful participant in the work of the church 
and Sunday-school.
  William L. Quinn, M. D., was educated in the public schools of West 
township, and at the State Normal Schools of Huntingdon, Lock Haven and 
Millersville, Pa. During the winters of three years, he taught school 
in his own township, and in vacation times, read medicine with Dr. 
George W. Lupfer; for two years besides, he read with his brother, Dr. 
Wallace C. Quinn, in Jefferson county. He matriculated at the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, in Baltimore, in 1892, and graduated in the 
spring of 1896, with honors.
  Dr. Quinn belongs to the Republican party. He is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church.