Colonel Quintus Quincy Quigley (1828–1910) was a lawyer and state senator in Kentucky.
He was born in Paris, Tennessee on July 17, 1828 and grew up in Milburn, Kentucky.[1] He was educated at Cumberland College and studied law under Judge Crockett in Paducah, Kentucky, starting in 1848.[1][2] He was instrumental in establishing Paducah as a city, serving on its board of trustees and framing the charter which incorporated it in 1856.[1]
In 1868, he built the house "Angles", named after the sharp angles of its three tracts of land.[3] The land cost $1,000 which had been allocated to buy a ring for his wife Mary. They couldn't find a ring she liked in Chicago but they fell in love with the farmland that they bought with the money instead.[1] The house was subsequently owned by Vice President Alben W. Barkley.[3]
He kept a detailed journal from 1859 to 1908. This was handwritten but was transcribed and published in a limited edition in 2000 as The Life and Times of Quintus Quincy Quigley.[4]
He and his wife had two children and, in his final years, he wintered with his daughter in Paducah where he died from a congestive chill on December 19, 1910.[2]
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edit- ^ a b c d The Life and Times of Quintus Quincy Quigley – McCracken County, 7 December 2019
- ^ a b "Col. Q. Q. Quigley Dean of Paducah Bar Passes Away", Paducah Evening Sun, 19 December 1910
- ^ a b Angles, Kentucky Historical Society
- ^ Leigh Landini (24 January 2000), "This is the real life journal of Quintus Quncy Quigley", Paducah Sun
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