MARQUIS L. QUINN. The farming and stock-raising interests of Riley County have a stirring representative in the subject of this sketch who may be usually found at his premises on sections 3 and 4, Sherman Township, his residence being on the latter. He came to this county in 1887 and purchased 400 acres of land, which is largely devoted to the raising of graded stock, Mr. Quinn usually keeping from seventy-five to 100 head of cattle. He is quite prominent in the affairs of his community, serving as Township Clerk, and has occupied other positions of trust and responsibility. He is likewise prominently identified with the Christian Church.

Mr. Quinn is essentially a Western man. having been born in McLean County, Ill., April 17, 1860. His father, Sidney Quinn, was a native of Madison County, Ky., whence he removed, in 1851 to Illinois, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying when about sixty-six years old. He was a farmer and stock-raiser and a member in good standing of the Christian Church. Politically, he was first a Whig and then a Republican. He married Miss Sally Boulware, a native of Madison County, Ky., and the daughter of John Boulware, who was also born in that State. The latter served as a Captain in the War of 1812, and died in McLean County, Ill., when seventy-five years old. Mrs. Quinn is still living, making her home in Bloomington, Ill., and has about attained to her threescore years and ten.

To the parents of our subject were born the following children: Narcissa, who died at the age of twenty-eight years; Mary; Lizzie, living in Concordia. Kan.; Benjamin, who died at the age of thirty-four; Thana. who died when twenty-five years old; Harriet, who died when thirty-four years old: Fanny, Marquis, George and Lilly, the latter of whom died when twenty-one years old. Marquis L. was the eighth child and was reared on a farm near Bloomington, Ill., receiving a practical education in the common-school. When twenty-four years old he was married, in 1884, to Miss Addie Jackson. Mrs. Quinn was born in McLean County, Ill., in 1863, and is the daughter of Lee and Margaret (Thomas) Jackson, natives of Kentucky and Maryland respectively. The Jackson family in 1863 removed to Illinois, settling in McLean County, where they now live, Mr. Jackson being engaged as a farmer and cattle raiser. The two sons born to Mr. and Mrs. Quinn. were Lee, who died when nine months old, and one who died unnamed in infancy. Their only surviving child is Georgia, an interesting little girl just three years old. having been born Dec. 6, 1886.

A view of the Quinn homestead assists in embellishing another page of this volume.