Quincy
Quincy names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Quincy a prominent name in American biography
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a prominent name in American biography. Edmund Quincy, a lawyer of note, was born at Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1681. His grandson, John Quincy, lived 1744-1775. He was born at Boston and undertook the profession of law. He took a prominent part in the agitation which preceded the American Revolution and died while absent on a political mission to England. His son, Josiah Quincy, lived 1772-1864. He represented Massachusetts in Congress 1805-13. He opposed the War of 1812 and was against the admission of Louisiana. He was mayor of Boston, and from 1829 to 1845 was president of Harvard. He wrote a History of Harvard University and a Municipal History of Boston. His son, Edmund Quincy, lived 1808-1877. He is known chiefly as his father's biographer and the editor of his writings. Josiah Quincy, a brother of the preceding, was mayor of Boston in 1845-9; another Josiah Quincy has been prominent in the politics of Massachusetts. Other Quincys are still prominent in the politics of Boston and of the state. Quincy, Massachusetts, was named after John Quincy of this family in 1792. It is a suburb of Boston, noted as the birthplace of John Quincy Adams and John Hancock. It has enormous stone quarries and is noted for its system of public schools.
Quincy a city and county-seat of Adams co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Adams co., Ill.; on the Mississippi river , and on the Wabash, the Burlington Route, and the Quincy, Omaha, and Kansas City railroads; 104 miles W. of Springfield. Here are the St. Francis Solanus College (R. C.), Chaddock College (M. E.), Gem City and Union business colleges, St. Mary's Institute (R. C.), public library, Blessing and St. Mary's Hospitals, State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, residence of a Protestant Episcopal bishop, parks, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National, State and private banks. and several daily and weekly periodicals. There is daily steamboat connection with cities along the Mississippi river. Quincy has flouring mills, carriage factories, machine shops, foundries, saw mills, planing mills, and extensive manufactures of cigars, tobacco, sash, blinds, stoves, elevators, pumps, furniture, bricks, steam engines, plows, etc. magnificent railroad bridge crosses the river here. Pop. (1910) 36,587; (1920) 35,978.
Quincy JOSIAH, an American author and orator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSIAH, an American author and orator; born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 4, 1772, son of Josiah Quincy. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1790, studied law, and entered Congress in 1805, where he distinguished himself as a favorite orator in opposition to the policy of Jefferson and Madison, and was one of the earliest to denounce slavery. He became a member of the Senate of Massachusetts, and in 1822, judge of the Municipal Court of Boston. In 1823 he was elected mayor of Boston; and in 1829 accepted the post of president of Harvard College, which he held till 1845. Among his_published works are "History of Harvard University" a (1840); "The Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston" (1852); "Life of John Quincy Adams" (1858); "Essays on the Soiling of Cattle" (1859). He died in Quincy, Mass., July 1, 1864.
Quincy a city in Norfolk co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city in Norfolk co., Mass.; at the mouth of the Quincy river where it enters Quincy Bay, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 8 miles S. E. of Boston. It comprises nearly a dozen villages. Here are the Adams Academy for Boys, Woodward Institute for Girls, Thomas Crane Public Library, city hospital, waterworks, electric street railroads, electric lights, National, co-operative, -operative, and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. The city contains quarries of the celebrated Quincy granite, which is shipped to nearly all parts of the United States. It also has a large boot and shoe industry. Quincy is noted as the birthplace of John Hancock, of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, Presidents of the United States. Pop. (1910) 32,642; (1920) 47,611.
Quincy JOSIAH, sometimes called JOSIAH QUINCY
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSIAH, sometimes called JOSIAH QUINCY, JR., an American lawyer; born in Boston, Mass., Jan, 23, 1744. He graduated from Harvard in 1763. He joined with John Adams in defending the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre case. But he took part in the town meeting ordering the "Boston tea-party"; and in September, 1774, went to England to speak in behalf of the colonists. His best known works are: "An Address of the Merchants, Traders, and Freeholders of Boston" in favor of a non-importation act (1770), and "Observations on the Boston Port Bill" (1774). He died April 26, 1775.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's put Quincy, Massachusetts at 47,611 people in 1920, living off granite and boots and shoes; today it is a city of about 100,000, the granite quarries shut down in 1963, and the Fore River shipyard that built warships there closed in 1986. The Adams houses the entries mention only as birthplaces became the Adams National Historical Park, run by the National Park Service since 1946, and the first Dunkin' Donuts opened in Quincy in 1950. Quincy, Illinois, which Collier's recorded slipping from 36,587 to 35,978 between 1910 and 1920, has stayed a small river city of roughly 40,000. One point of family history needs fixing: Aiton's 1910 account calls the patriot lawyer who died at sea in 1775 "John Quincy" and dates him 1744-1775, but that was Josiah Quincy Jr.; the town was named for the earlier John Quincy, his great-grandfather.
Written for this edition, 2026.