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QUACKENBOS, George Payn, educator, b. in New York city, 4 Sept.. Ixilj; d. in New London, Merrimack co., N. II., 24 July, 1881. He was graduated at Columbia in 1843 and studied law, but relinquished it to become a teacher, and for many years was principal of a large collegiate school in Xew York city. In ls4S-'."it) lie edited the " Literary Magazine." Wesleyan gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1863. He edited several dic- tionaries of foreign languages, and his school-books include "First Lessons in Composition," of which 40,000 copies have been printed (New York, 1851); " Advanced Course of Rhetoric and Composition " (1854); "School History of the United States" (1857) ; " Natural Philosophy " (1859) ; a series of English grammars (1862 '4) ; one of arithmetics (1863-'74); and "Language Lessons" (1876). His son, John Duncan, educator, b. in New York city, 22 April, 1848. was graduated at Columbia in 1868, became tutor there in history. was graduated at the New Y'ork college of physicians and surgeons in 1871, and in 1884 he became adjunct professor of the English language and literature in Columbia. He received the degree of A. M. from that college in 1871. He has published " Illustrated History of the World" (New York, 1876); "Illustrated History of Ancient Literature, Oriental and Clas- sical " (1878) ; and "History of the English Lan- guage " (1884) ; and was the literary editor of Appletons' " Standard Physical Geography " (1887).

QUACKENBUSH, Stephen Platt, naval officer, b. in Albany, N. Y., 23 Jn.ii., 1S2:>: d. in Washington, D.C., 4 Feb.. IS'.KI. I If I KM mi- a midshipman in 1S40, lieutenant in 1855, and lieut. -commander in lsr.2. During the civil war he was in charge of the " Delaware," the " Unadilla," the "Pequot,"the"Pa- tapsco," and the " Mingo," of the blockading squad- ron. He covered Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside'sarmy in falling back from Aquia creek and the landing at Ro- anoke island, scat- tering a large body of the enemy, took

part in the battles

at Elizabeth City and New Berne, N. C., flying the divisional flag of Com. Stephen C. Rowan, and engaged the Confederate batteries and a regiment of flying infantry at Winton, N. C., where 700 or 800 Union men had been reported, and a white flag displayed as a decoy for the naval vessels. He was then ordered to deliver to the people Gen. Burn- side's and Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough's procla- mation concerning the 700 or 800 men reported. When the " Delaware " was close to the shore a body of armed Confederates was reported. She opened fire, and Winton was destroyed according to orders, in consequence of the display of the white flag. He subsequently was in action at Sewell's Point landing. Wilcox landing, and Malvern hill, on James river, where he commanded the " Pequot." and received a shot that took off his right leg. He afterward covered the rear-guard of the army in the retreat to Harrison's landing. While in charge of the steam gun-boat " Unadilla," of the South Atlantic squadron, in 1863, he captured the " Prin- cess Royal," which contained machinery for shap- ing projectiles, engines for an iron-clad then build- ing in Richmond, and a large quantity of quinine. When commanding the " Patapsco," of the North Atlantic squadron, in 1864, he was engaged in as- certaining the nature and position of the obstruc- tions in Charleston harbor, and, while dragging for torpedoes, his ship was struck by one and sunk in twenty seconds. He was then in charge of the steamer " Mingo," protecting Georgetown, S. C., and. with a force of light-draught vessels, prevented the re-erection of a fort by the enemy. He became commander in 1866, captain in 1871, and commo- dore in 1880. In 18Gl-'2 he was in charge of the navy-yard at Pensacola, Fla., and in 1885 he was retired as rear-admiral,

QUARTER. William. R. C. bishop, b. in Killurine, King's co., Ireland, 24 Jan., 1806; d. in Chicago. 111., 10 April, 1848. He received his early training in the classical seminary of Tulla- more, and was preparing for the ecclesiastical col- lege of Maynooth when he met a priest who had returned from the United States. The accounts he heard of the spiritual destitution of his country- men induced him to go thither, and he landed in Quebec on 10 April, 1822. He applied for admis- sion into the seminary, but was rejected on account of his youth, and met with a similar refusal at Montreal, but, after travelling through the United States, he was finally received into Mount St. Mary's college, Emmettsburg, Md. He became professor of Latin and Greek there, studied phi- losophy and theology at the same time, and was ordained priest on 4 Sept., 1829. He was ap- pointed assistant pastor of St. Peter's church, New York, where, during the cholera epidemic of 1832, he displayed great self-sacrifice. He gathered the children that had been made orphans by the visitation, and intrusted them to the care of the Sisters of Charity, spending all his means on their maintenance. He was appointed pastor of St. Mary's parish in 1833, rebuilt the church, which had been burned, and founded a select and a free school in connection with it. In 1843 his name was transmitted to the pope by the council of Bal- timore, which had just created the diocese of Chi- cago. He received the pontifical briefs on 30 Sept., and was consecrated first bishop of Chicago in the cathedral of New York on 10 March, 1844, by Archbishop Hughes. He completed the Chicago cathedral from his own resources and the contribu- tions of members of his family, opened several Roman Catholic schools, and founded a college which afterward was developed into the University of St. Mary's of the Lake. In 1845 he went to New York to collect money for an ecclesiastical seminary, and in 1846 it was completed and organized. In the same year lie introduced the Sisters of Mercy, and built a convent for them in Chicago, which soon sent out branches to every part of Illinois. He was the first bishop in the United States to establish theological conferences, at which the clergymen of his diocese assembled twice a year for the discussion of ecclesiastical statutes and questions relating to their calling. He was particularly attentive to the emigrants that were then flocking mil' the country, and organized benevolent societies to aid them.