Quintus Quincy Quigley
Colonel Quintus Quincy Quigley (July 17, 1828 – December 19, 1910) was a lawyer in Kentucky and founder of the city of Paducah. He kept a journal for nearly fifty years which has since been published as The Life and Times of Quintus Quincy Quigley. His house "Angles" was subsequently owned by US Vice President Alben W. Barkley and is still standing.
Early life and education
[edit]He was born to James and Martha Quigley in Paris, Tennessee, on July 17, 1828, and grew up in Milburn, Kentucky.[1][2] He was educated at Cumberland College and studied law under Judge Sam W. Crockett in Paducah, Kentucky, starting in 1848.[2][3]
Legal career
[edit]He practised as an attorney in Ballard and McCracken counties.[1] He was instrumental in establishing Paducah as a city, serving on its board of trustees and framing the charter which incorporated it in 1856. He became the first city attorney for Paducah. He formed a law firm, Quigley and Quigley, with his son Isaac who was also a lawyer and who became Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. They represented the Illinois Central Railroad for some time. Isaac died before him, and Quintus then stopped practising law and retired to the country.[2]
Angles
[edit]In 1868, he built the house "Angles", named after the sharp angles of its three tracts of land.[4] 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 and so bought it with the money instead. Construction of the house then cost $8,000 more which caused some financial difficulty.[2] The house was subsequently owned by Vice President Alben W. Barkley, who lived there from 1937 through 1956.[4]
Journal
[edit]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.[5]
Family
[edit]He and his wife had six children, and in his final years he wintered with his only daughter Mary Quintina Langstaff, known as Ina, in Paducah, where he died from a congestive chill on December 19, 1910.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Quintus Quincy Quigley, Kentucky Historical Society
- ^ a b c d The Life and Times of Quintus Quincy Quigley – McCracken County, December 7, 2019
- ^ a b "Col. Q. Q. Quigley Dean of Paducah Bar Passes Away", Paducah Evening Sun, December 19, 1910
- ^ a b Angles, Kentucky Historical Society
- ^ Leigh Landini (January 24, 2000), "This is the real life journal of Quintus Quncy Quigley", Paducah Sun
- ^ Andy Osterdahl (2014), The Strangest Names in American Political History
