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Littleton Dennis Teackle Quinby Sr.

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Littleton Dennis Teackle Quinby Sr.

Birth
Onancock, Accomack County, Virginia, USA
Death
2 Sep 1933 (aged 61)
Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Burial
Quinby, Accomack County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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LITTLETON DENNIS TEACKLE QUINBY, SON OF Upshur Balderston Quinby and Georgie G. Richardson, was born 27 Aug 1871, at Onancock, Accomac county, Virginia; in 1891 he "was just home from the Uni¬versity of Virginia, where he had taken the law course." He married 27 Oct. 1897, at Atlanta, Ga, Lulu Belle, daughter of William A. and Emma (Sanders) Hemphill, born 4 July, 1876. In 1901 he was practising law at Atlanta, with offices in the Equitable building, a member of the Com¬mercial Law League of America, and a Notary Public. He came later with his family to New York city, where he practised law, and where Mrs. Quinby received a cordial welcome from metropolitan society, and was for several years mentioned in the daily papers as one of the most popular members of the Southern colony. They returned to the family home of the Quinbys in Virginia, and about 1908 Mr. Quinby became the owner and editor of the coun¬ty newspaper, the Accomack News. About 1911 he joined his brother Thomas at Tampa, Florida, and under the name of Quinby Bros. & Co., they went into the business of growing and shipping oranges. "One car of this fruit, this season, 300 boxes of oranges, netted back f. o. b. loading point, $982," says their circular of March, 1912. In 1915 he is connected with the Empire Trust & Safe Deposit Co. of Atlanta, Ga., and lives at Brookhaven, Ga. Children of L. D. Teackle Quinby [as of 1914]:
I. BELLE QUINBY, born 1 Sept. 1898, died 7 Mar. 1907;
II. ELISE QUINBY, born 9 Nov. 1899;
III. MARGARET TEACKLE QUINBY, born 3 Dec. 1905.
From "The Quinby Family" by Henry Cole Quinby 1915
Contributor: James Maynard (48800380)
LITTLETON DENNIS TEACKLE QUINBY, SON OF Upshur Balderston Quinby and Georgie G. Richardson, was born 27 Aug 1871, at Onancock, Accomac county, Virginia; in 1891 he "was just home from the Uni¬versity of Virginia, where he had taken the law course." He married 27 Oct. 1897, at Atlanta, Ga, Lulu Belle, daughter of William A. and Emma (Sanders) Hemphill, born 4 July, 1876. In 1901 he was practising law at Atlanta, with offices in the Equitable building, a member of the Com¬mercial Law League of America, and a Notary Public. He came later with his family to New York city, where he practised law, and where Mrs. Quinby received a cordial welcome from metropolitan society, and was for several years mentioned in the daily papers as one of the most popular members of the Southern colony. They returned to the family home of the Quinbys in Virginia, and about 1908 Mr. Quinby became the owner and editor of the coun¬ty newspaper, the Accomack News. About 1911 he joined his brother Thomas at Tampa, Florida, and under the name of Quinby Bros. & Co., they went into the business of growing and shipping oranges. "One car of this fruit, this season, 300 boxes of oranges, netted back f. o. b. loading point, $982," says their circular of March, 1912. In 1915 he is connected with the Empire Trust & Safe Deposit Co. of Atlanta, Ga., and lives at Brookhaven, Ga. Children of L. D. Teackle Quinby [as of 1914]:
I. BELLE QUINBY, born 1 Sept. 1898, died 7 Mar. 1907;
II. ELISE QUINBY, born 9 Nov. 1899;
III. MARGARET TEACKLE QUINBY, born 3 Dec. 1905.
From "The Quinby Family" by Henry Cole Quinby 1915
Contributor: James Maynard (48800380)

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