JOHN M. QUIGLEY
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John M. QUIGLEY, M.D., is one of the eminently successful men in his
profession in Lawrence County, Mo.. Thirty years of almost constant
practice has made him well known, and established a reputation for
professional skill which has built up a most remunerative business. He was
born in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 8, 1833. He comes of sturdy
Revolutionary stock; his grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War, entering service at the age of sixteen years as a substitute for his
brother, after which he served four years for himself. The Doctor's father
was born in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, and became a prominent
physician of Ohio, having practiced his profession there for fifty-five
years. The subject of the present sketch was reared in his native state,
and the greater portion of his early life was spent in obtaining an
education in the schools of the Western Reserve of Ohio. He became a
student of medicine at an early age, under the instruction of his father,
attending medical lectures at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated and
remained in practice for a time. Soon after the war he practiced in Benton
County, Mo., and removed from there to Barry County, which he was afterward
elected to represent in the State Legislature. In 1878 he came to Peirce
City, and has since devoted his entire time to his profession, and is
recognized as one of the leading physicians of the county. In the hey-day
of life, with a vigor well preserved, he bids fair to be a useful member of
his profession for many years to come. His wife, who was a native of Ohio,
has been dead eight years, leaving five children, three girls and two boys,
who are all alive at the present writing, and give promise of becoming
useful citizens.
From "A Reprint of Goodspeed's 1888 History of Lawrence County; Reprint
Lawrence County Section of Goodspeed's Newton, Lawrence, Barry And McDonald Counties History; published by the Goodspeed Publishing Co., in 1888; Reprinted by Litho Printers Of Cassville, Missouri In 1973."
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