with arms and ammunitions to the patriots, among others one in the steamer " Virginius." which was captured by the Spaniards. Among those of the crew that were exeunt i'd at Santiago de Cuba was a son of Quesada. After the close of the Cuban insurrection he settled in Costa Rica, where he was employed by the government.
QUESADA, Vicente Gaspar, Argentine author, b. in Buenos Ayres, 5 April, 1830. He studied law in the university .it' his native city, in 1850 was graduated as LL. I)., and at once took an active part in politics, contributing, by his articles in tin: press of Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, to the fall of the tyrant Rosas in 1852. He founded in 1860 the "Revista del Parana," and in 1864 the "Revista de Buenos Ayres," and since 1871 he has
been director of the public library of the latter city. He has published "Impresiones de viaje, recuerdos de las provincias de Cordoba, Santiago y
Tucuman" (Buenos Ayres, 1852); "La provincia tie Cordoba" (1860), which has been translated into German : and a series of articles, "Los Recuerdos,"
" El Crepusculo de la tarde," " Lejos del hogar," and "El Arpa," published in his " Revista," and in a volume (1864).
QUESNEL, Dieudonné-Gabriel Louis, (kay-nel), South American botanist, b. near Cayenne in 1749; d. in Cayenne in 1801. He received his
education in France, served for several years in the
army, and fought at Tobago in 1780. After the
conclusion of peace he returned, with the brevet
of major, to his estate in Guiana, and, at the
suggestion of Malouet (q. v.), established a model farm, and
adopted new methods of cultivation. For several
years he carried on his agricultural experiments,
but, unwise management proving detrimental to
his fortune, he abandoned agriculture and
became a traveller. He explored French Guiana
and the northern provinces of Brazil, and formed
an important herbarium, which is now deposited
in the museum of Cayenne. Among his works are
“Herbier expliqué des plantes de la Guiane” (2
vols., Cayenne, 1792); “Description de la flore
Guianaise” (1795); and “Journal de voyage à
travers les Pampas” (1796)..
QUESNEL, Joseph, author, b. in St. Malo,
France, 15 Nov., 1749; d. in Montreal, Canada,
3 July, 1809. After finishing his studies, he shipped
on board a man-of-war, visited Pondichery and
Madagascar, travelled in Africa, and after three
years returned to France. After resting a few
months, he set out for French Guiana, and afterward
visited several islands of the Antilles and
explored part of Brazil. He then travelled in the
valley of the Mississippi, and finally decided on
settling in Canada. He married in Montreal, and
resided in Boucherville. In 1788 he wrote “Colas
et Colinette,” a vaudeville, which was played for
the first time in Montreal. He followed with
“Lucas et Cecile,” an operetta, “L'Anglomanie,” a
comedy in verse, and “Républicans Français,” in
prose, which was afterward published in Paris.
Besides several songs, he composed sacred music
for the parish church of Montreal, and some
motets, and wrote a short treatise on the dramatic
art (1805). The writings of Quesnel are in the first
volume of the “Répertoire national.”
QUETZALCOHUATL (ket-zal-co-wat'-tle), king
of the Toltecs, lived about the sixth century.
According to Brasseur de Bourbourg (q. v.), in his
“Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique,” a
personage with long hair reaching to the waist, and
a pale visage, who gave his name as
Cecalt-Quetzalcohuatl, landed one morning at Panuco. He
pretended to come from an eastern country of which
nobody had heard before, and was accompanied
by a troop of architects, painters, and scientists.
Proceeding immediately to Tollantzingo, he built
a magnificent temple and an underground palace,
and was elected king of Tollan, the nations of the
Anahuac valley receiving him as a messenger of
God. His reign lasted twenty years, and proved
beneficial to the people, several nations asking to
be admitted in the confederacy, till Huemac, king
of Aculhuacan, allied with the dissatisfied priests,
overthrew the monarchy. Quetzalcohuatl retired
to the valley of Huitzilapan, where he founded the
city of Cholula, which later became the seat of a
powerful republic. Some years afterward Cholula
was also taken by Huemac, and Brasseur de
Bourbourg asserts that Quetzalcohuatl died during his
flight from Cholula. But other historians say
that, after retiring from Tollantzingo, Quetzalcohuatl
reached the coast of Campeche and founded
Xicalanco on an island of the lagoon de Terminos,
whence, after some years, he retired again to his
fabulous country, while his followers emigrated to
Central America and founded the new city of
Tollan near Ococingo in Chiapas.
QUICK, Charles William, clergyman, b. in New York city, 4 Oct., 1822; d. in Philadelphia. 10 Oct., 1894. He was graduated at Yale and at
Alexandria seminary. He was ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and was rector of parishes in New York and Pennsylvania till 1876, when he joined the ministry of the Reformed Episcopal church. He edited the "Episcopal Recorder" in 1866-'81 ; the "Christian Woman" in 1885-'93 ; the works of Ezekiel Hopkins (Philadelphia, 1863); "Righteousness by Faith," by Charles P. Mcllvaine (1864); and the works of John Owen (16 vols., 1865).
QUICKENBORNE (or VAN QUICKENBORNE, CHARLES), Charles van, clergyman, b. in Peteghem, Belgium, 21 Jan., 1788; d. at the mission of St. Francis, in the Portage des Sioux, Mo., 17 Aug., 1857. He studied in the College of Ghent, was ordained priest, and held various ecclesiastical places in Belgium. He became a Jesuit in 1815, and at once asked to be sent on the American mission. He arrived in the United States in 1817, and in 1819 was appointed superior of the Jesuit novitiate of White Marsh, Md. While attending to the duties of this office he built two fine churches, one in Annapolis and one at White Marsh, and had, at the same time, a vast district under his jurisdiction. After some years he was ordered to transfer his mission to Missouri. He accordingly set out with twelve companions, and, after travelling 1,600 miles, arrived at Florissant and began the novitiate of St. Stanislaus. To form this establishment he had no other materials than the timber that he carried from the woods and the rocks he raised from the bed of the river. He was his own architect, mechanic, and laborer, and, aided by his novices, finally constructed the buildings. In 1828 he set about building a university at St. Louis, and also erected at St. Charles a church, a convent of the Sacred Heart, and a parochial residence. His great desire from the first had been to evangelize the Indians. He therefore made several excursions among the Osages and lowas, and made numerous conversions. He erected a house and chapel among the Kickapoos, and this tribe became the centre of his missionary labors in 1836. He had visited all the neighboring tribes and formed plans for their conversion, when he was recalled to Missouri. After remaining some time in St. Louis, he was sent to the parish of St. Francis, where he at once began the erection of a church.
