LAKE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Lake County, Ohio Biographies Project by
M.T. Quincy
qsiincqsi@msn.com
September 6, 2001
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The Lewis Publishing Company
1893
Chicago
'Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio' 


      David Quincy, a prominent and well-to-do farmer of Mentor township,
Lake county, Ohio, is a man who has made his won way in the world and is
justly entitled to the place he occupies among  the representative men of
the county.
      Mr. Quincy was born in Northamptonshire, England, February 18, 1834,
son of Josiah and Rebecca (Drage) Quincy, also natives of that place.  His
father died at the age of fifty-two-years, and his mother at seventy-five.
They had a family of nine children, three of whom emigrated to America.
       His father being a farmer, David was reared to agricultural pursuits,
and has been engaged in farming all his life.   When he was nine years old
he worked out, receiving thirty-six cents a week.  In 1854 he sailed from
Liverpool for New York, landing at the destination after a voyage of nine
weeks and four days.  From that city he went to Rutland, Vermont, where he
found employment as a farm hand and where he continued as such until the war
came on.  In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Seventh Vermont
Volunteer Infantry, and went South with his command.  He participated in the
battle of Pearl River, Louisiana, and was at Baton Rouge and Grand Gulf.  At
the time he entered the service he weighed 187 pounds, and in les than a
year, when he was honorably discharged on account of disability, he was
reduced to 96 pounds!  He was promoted to Sergeant, but was discharged
before he ever got to fill the office.
      After leaving the army Mr. Quincy returned to Vermont and remained
there one year.  Then he came to Lake County, Ohio, and settled in Mentor
township, where he has since resided.  Upon his arrival here he purchased
land, to which he has added by subsequent purchase until he now the owner of
188 acres, all nicely improved.
      Mr. Quincy was married in the fall of 1863 to Jane Kelley, a native of
Washington County, New York.  After he father's death, which occurred in New
York, her mother came to Ohio with her family and settled in Lake County,
her death occurring some years later in Willoughby township.  Mr. And Mrs.
Quincy have six children: Emma, Belle, George, Myra, Willis, and David.
        Mr. Quincy is a member of the Masonic order and the James A.
Garfield Post, No.  591, G.A.R., of Mentor, having served as Commander of
the Post three years.  Politically, he is a Republican, and has served in
various local offices.