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PATRICK QUINN, grocer, was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, Feb. 8, 1828. His parents, Michael and Almira (Boyce) Quinn, were natives of County Limerick, Ireland, and New York. Father was born in 1785, and died in December, 1863. Mother was born in 1808, died Nov. 15, 1848. During infancy our subject was taken with parents to Watertown, N. Y., where his father engaged in the mercantile business. Four years later parents moved to Philadelphia, Penn., where for eight years subject attended the city schools, acquiring a liberal education. Then to Mt. Holly, and young Quinn engaged as clerk in father’s store. Three years thereafter he went to Burlington, Vt., and continued for a time in same business. Then to Pittsburgh, same state, and later to Ohio, locating in Newark, Licking county. There subject engaged in the mercantile business. Returned to Canada in 1850 and continued in same business at Oakville, province of Ontario. Subsequently he engaged as a merchant in Columbus, Ohio, Rock Island, Ill., Detroit, Mich., Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Denver, Col. Returned to the states in the spring of 1866 and commenced freighting goods across the plains from Rock Island, Ill., to Salt Lake City. After this he followed different occupations for a number of years. In the spring of 1870 he returned again to the states, having crossed the plains nearly thirty times. Came to Joplin in 1873. Was married at Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1849, to Miss Mary L. Baylis, of that state. She was born in England in 1833, and died Jan. 25, 1875, in Joplin, Mo. From this union there were seven children: Albert M., born Sept. 21, 1850; Almira, born in October, 1852, now wife of P. L. Swartz, of this city; George W., born April 6, 1855; Minnie S., born July 9, 1857, now wife of E. B. Hobson, of Eureka Springs; Alice L., born Sept 18, 1859; Ed. P., born April 9, 1863, and one died in infancy. Subject was again married at Wellington, Kan., Dec. 11, 1882, to M. P. Oatman, of that city.