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OHIO

COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY

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M. QUAD   Source: A Biographical History of Darke County, Ohio, Compendium of National Biography - Illustrated - Publ. Evansville, Ind. - 1900 - Page 193

M. S. QUAY

MATTHEW S. QUAY, a celebrated public man and senator, was born at Dillsburgh, York county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 30, 1833, of an old Scotch-Irish family, some of whom had settled in the Keystone state in 1715.  Matthew received a good education, graduating from the Jefferson College at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, at the age of seventeen.  He then traveled, taught school, lectured, and studied law under Judge Sterrett.  He was admitted to the bar in 1854, was appointed a prothonotary in 1855 and elected to the same office in 1856 and 1859.  Later he was made lieutenant of the Pennsylvania Reserves, lieutenant-colonel and assistant commissary-general of the state, private secretary of the famous war governor of Pennsylvania, Andrew G. Curtin, colonel of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry (nine months men), military state agent and held other offices at different times.      Mr. Quay was a member of the house of representatives of the state of Pennsylvania from 1865 to 1868.  He filled the office of secretary of the commonwealth from 1872 to 1878, and the position of delegate-at-large to the Republican national conventions of 1872, 1876, 1880 and 1888.  He was the editor of the "Beaver Radical" and the "Philadelphia Record" for a time, and held many offices in the state conventions on their committees.  He was elected secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1869, and served three years, and in 1885 was chosen state treasurer.  In 1886 his great abilities pointed him out as the natural candidate for United States senator, and he was accordingly elected to that position and re-elected thereto in 1892.  He was always noted for a genius for organization, and as a political leader had but few peers.  Cool, serene, far-seeing, resourceful, holding his impulses and forces in hand, he never quailed from any policy he adopted, and carried to success most, if not all, of the political campaigns in which he took part. Source: A Biographical History of Darke County, Ohio, Compendium of National Biography - Illustrated - Publ. Evansville, Ind. - 1900 - Page 171

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