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QUINCY, JOSIAH (17441775) , American patriot, son of Josiah Quincy (17091784), was born in Boston on the 23rd of February 1744. He was a descendant of Edmund Quincy, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1633, and received in 1636 a grant of land at Mount
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See the Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, Jun., of Massachusetts (Boston, 1825; 2nd ed., 1874), by his son, which contains his more important papers. His son, JoSIAH QUINCY (1772-1864), American lawyer and author, was born in Boston on the 4th of February 1772. He studied at Phillips Academy, Andover, graduated at Harvard in 1790, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1793, but was never a prominent advocate He became a leader of the Federalist party in Massachusetts; was an unsuccessful candidate for the national House
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opinion , that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States that compose it are free from their moral obligations to maintain it; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a separation,amicably if they can, violently if they must." This is probably " the first assertion of the right of secession on the floor of Congress." Quincy left Congress because he saw that the Federalist opposition was useless, and thereafter was a member of the Massachusetts Senate until 182o; in 182122 he was a member and speaker of the state House of Representatives, from which he resigned to become judge of the municipal court of Boston. In 182328 he was mayor of Boston, and in his term Faneuil Hall
His eldest brother, SAMUEL QUINCY (1735-1789), was at this time solicitor-general of Massachusetts, and opened this trial. He remained loyal to the Crown, left Boston in 1776, and was attorney for the Crown in Antigua
built, the fire and police departments were reorganized, and the city's care of the poor was systematized. In 18291845 he was president of Harvard College, of which he had been an overseer since 1810, when the board was reorganized; he has been called " the great organizer of the university ": he gave an elective (or voluntary ") system an elaborate trial; introduced a system of marking (on the scale of 8) on which college rank and honours, formerly rather carelessly assigned, were based; first used courts of law to punish students who destroyed or injured college property; and helped to reform the finances of the university. During his term Dane Hall
He wrote a Memoir of his father (1825); a History of Harvard University (2 vols., 1840), marred by a tendency to belittle the clerical regime; The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw (1847); The History of the Boston Athenaeum
JoSIAH QUINCY (1802-1882), son of the last-named, was mayor of Boston in 18451849, and author of Figures of the Past (1882); his brother EDMUND (18081877) was a prominent Abolitionist, and author of the biography of his father and of a romance, Wensley (1854); and his sister ELIZA SUSAN (17981884) was her father's secretary and the biographer of her mother. Josiah Quincy (18021882) had two sonsJosIAH PHILLIPS (1829-1910), a lawyer, who wrote, besides some verse, The Protection of Majorities (1876) and Double Taxation in Massachusetts (1889); and SAMUEL MILLER (18331887), who practised law, wrote on legal subjects, served in the Union army during the Civil War, and was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865. JOSIAH QUINCY (b. 1859), a son of Josiah Phillips Quincy, was prominent in the Democratic party in Massachusetts, and was mayor of Boston in 18951899. End of Article: QUINCY, JOSIAH (17441775) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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