AREA HISTORY:  Matthew Quay, Carroll Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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COL. MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY – Page 660

The present State treasurer of Pennsylvania was born in Dillsburg in 1833 in the 
oldest house in town, now owned by A. N. Eslinger.  He is a son of Rev. Anderson 
B. Quay, who was pastor of Dillsburg Presbyterian Church from 1830 to 1839.  He 
was admitted to the bar in Beaver County in 1854, and elected prothonotary in 
1855, and re-elected twice.  He enlisted as a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania 
Reserves in 1861, but soon became assistant commissary general of the State, and 
afterward private secretary to Gov. Curtin.  He next took command of the One 
Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and commanded it 
at the battle of Fredericksburg, and then was selected by Gov. Curtin, State 
agent and military secretary, which position he resigned to enter Pennsylvania 
Legislature from Beaver County.  He has since shown great power and influence as 
a legislator and politician.