PIERCE QUIRK - Biography ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: WISCONSIN BIOGRAPHY INDEX http://www.rootsweb.com/~wibiog/ 2002 ==================================================================== This biography appears on pages 673 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin... published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879. PIERCE QUIRK, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Kansasville; born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1808; came to New York in July, 1849; to Milwaukee same year; thence to Dover; he owns 450 acres of land in Secs. 20, 21, 22. He married in Tipperary in 1828, Mary Cleary, of same parish and county, and has seven children- Bridget, Alice, Johanna, William, Michael, John, James. They attend St. Mary's Church.