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Paris, France, 15 April, 1887. He came to the United States in 1841, entered the ecclesiastical seminary at Fordham, X. Y.. and was ordained priest by Bishop Hughes on 17 Dec., 1845. He subsequently became pastor of St. Peter's church in Barclay street, New York, where, besides having to dear off a debt of S140.0UO, he was opposed by the lay trustees, who had control of the church building. There was also $137,000 due to poor men and women who had intrusted their savings to the care of St. Peter's church. He was actively supported by Bishop Hughes, and finally succeeded in triumphing over the trustees and paying the debts. He was appointed pastor of the cathedral on 1 May, 1873, and was also made vicar-general. Duriiv.' tiir al>sence of Cardinal Mel 'In-key in 1875 and 1878 he had charge of the administration of the archdiocese. As vicar-general he had the di- rection of the purchase, sale, and transfer of all ecclesiastical property, and the supervision of schools, asylums, societies, reformatories, and all other Roman Catholic institutions. He was re- appointed in 1885 by Archbishop Corrigan, and to his other charges was added that of the financial matters connected with the completion of the new cathedral. His health at length gave way under the pressure of his duties, and he went to Europe in June, 1886. Dr. Quinn was for many years one of the most influential men in the Roman Catholic church of the United States. Under Cardinal McCloskey his power was almost absolute in the archdiocese of New York. He was abrupt in ad- dress, and sometimes gave offence by his uncere- monious manners. His care for the needy was well known, and, although millions passed through his hands, he died poor. His remains were brought from Paris to New York and interred in Calvary cemetery. Dr. Quinn was a domestic prelate of the papal throne.

QUINT, Alonzo Hall, clergyman, b. in Barn- stead, N. H., 22 March, 1828 ; d. in Boston, 4 Nov., 1896. He was graduated at Dartmouth and at Andover seminary, was pastor of the Mather church in Roxbury, Mass., from 1853 till 1863 ; was secre- tary of the Massachusetts general association of Congregational churches from 1856 till 1881, and of the national council of Congregational churches of the United States from 1871 till 1883. In 1861-'4 he was chaplain of the 3d Massachusetts infantry. He served in the legislature in l881-'3. Dartmouth gave him the degree of D. D. in 1866. Dr. Quint was a member of many historical and genealogical socie- ties, and served on the Massachusetts board of edu- cal i"ii from 1855 till 1861. He was, from 1859 till 1876, an editor and a proprietor of the " Congrega- tional Quarterly," contributed numerous articles to the Dover " Inquirer," and is the author of "The I 'M| "inac and the Rapidan, or Army Notes from the Failure at Winchester to the Re-enforcement of Rosecrans" (Boston, 1864) and "The Records of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-'5 " (1867) and the " First Parish in Dover, N. H." (1883).

QUINTANA, Agustin (kin-tah'-nah), Mexican missionary, b. in Oaxaca about 1660; d. there in 1734. He entered the order of preachers in his na- tive city in 1688, and was soon .sent to the missions of the Mije Indians. After twenty-eight years of labor he was appointed superior of the convent of Zaacvila, but he retired later, on account of failing health, to the main convent of Oaxaca. where he wrote several books in the Mije language. As they were the first that had been printed, he made sev- eral visits to Puebla, notwithstanding his sickness, to teach the printers how to make new letters. 1 1 is chief work is " Institution Cristiuim, <|iie contiene el Arte de la Lengua Mije y los Tratados de la San- tisima Trinidad, de la Creation del Mundo, y la Redencion por Jesucristo " (Puebla, 1729).

QIINTANA ROO, Andres,' Mexican statesman, b. in Merida, Yucatan, 30 Nov., 1787; d. in Mexi- co, 15 April, 1851. He studied in the Seminary of San Ildefonso in his native city, was graduated in law, in 1808 went to Mexico to practise his pro- fession, and soon attained to reputation. When Hidalgo rose against the Spanish dominion, Quin- tana took an active part in the cause of independ- ence, and was forced to fly from the capital, but in different localities he published a patriotic paper, " Ilustrador Americano," and circulated it. not- withstanding the vigilance of the Spanish authori- ties. After the capture of Zitacuaro by the in- surgents, he joined the governing junta there, and by their order published, on 16 Sept., 1812, a mani- festo under the name of " Aniversario," which ex- plained the principles of independence and related the events of the past two years. When the first Mexican congress as- sembled at Chilpan- cingo, 14 Sept., 1813, Quintana waselected vice-president, and as such signed, in the absence of President Murguia, the first formal declaration of the independence of Mexico, 16 Nov., isi:i. He followed the congress from place to place, and after the capture of Morelos, when that body was dissolved, he suffered from the persecution of the

Spanish authorities.

Afterward Iturbide appointed Quintana judge of the supreme court, and, when the empire was over- thrown, the latter established in 1823 the journal " El Federalista Mexicano," which soon became a leader of public opinion. He was several times deputy to congress and senator, won reputation as an orator, and in 1838 was appointed minister of the interior. He was one of the first to offer a voluntary contribution to aid the government in repelling the French invasion. Besides his jour- nalistic labors and political pamphlets, Quintana wrote many patriotic odes and a translation in verse of the Psalms, but his poetical compositions have only been published in magazines.

QUINTARD, Charles Todd, P. E. bishop, b. in Stamford, Conn., 22 Dec., 1824: d. in Meinden, Ga., 15 Feb., 1898. His father was born in the same house, and died there in the ninetieth year of his age. The son was a pupil of Trinity school, studied medicine with Dr. James R. Wood and Dr. Valentine Mott, and was graduated at the UIMMTsity of the city of New ork in 1847. He afterward removed to Georgia, ami began the praetice of medicine in Athens. In 1851 he accepted the chair of physiology and pathological anatomy in the medical college at Memphis. Tenn., ami became co-editor with Dr. Ayres P. Merrill, of the Memphis " Medical Recorde'r." In 1855 he took orders as a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church. He was advanced to the priesthood in the following year, and in January. 1857, became rector of Calvary church, Memphis. He resigned at the end of the year to accept the rectorship of the Church of the Advent, Nashville, Tenn., at the request of