Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Quarles, Joseph V. 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    HON. J. V. QUARLES, was born in Kenosha, and is a son of the late Joseph V.
Quarles who came to Kenosha in 1838; his mother, Caroline B., was a daughter of
Gen. John Bullen, who cam here in the summer of 1836. Mr. Quarles, the father,
was engaged in land business and in agricultural pursuits, and, for many years
in later life, in the settlement of estates; he was also County Clerk for
several years, and in the wagon business with Henry Mitchell. He died in July,
1874, leaving two sons Joseph V. and Charles, both attorneys. Joseph V. was
educated at the Michigan University, graduate from the classical course in 1866,
and from the law department in 1867. In the summer of 1864, he had served 100
days as First Lieutenant 39th W. V. I., Co. C. In the fall of 1868, he was
elected District Attorney, and served two terms in succession; he was
Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1873 and 1874; Mayor in 1876; President
of Board of Education two years, ending April 1, 1879, and member of the
Legislature, elected in the fall of 1878.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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