Hon. David Oliver Quck
This is imformation from the Pen Pictures
of the Garden of the World:
Hon. David Oliver Quck, one of Polk County's
prominent citizens, was born in Indiana,
August 27, 1829. His ancestors were people
who settled in the colonies prior to the
Revolutionary War. His great-grandfather
lost his life in that struggle for independence.
Mr. Quick's father, James was born in Kentucky
in 1803. He married Miss. Elizabeth McClure,
a native of Indianna, born in 1806, daughter
of William McClure. They reared to matuity
nine children, of whom seven are still living.
The father removed to Indiana when a child
of three with his parents and was reared
there on a farm. He was a good member of
the Baptist Church. He died in Franklin Countyo,
Indiana in 1868, the sixty-four-year of his
life. His wife llived to be eighty-five and
then died September 15, 1891. The son, David
was their third child, and was sent to public
school of
his native state. He began life for himself
as a school teacher in Illinois anddd taught
for eight year. In 1856 "57 '58 Mr.
Quick read law in
Hillsboro Illinois and wass admitted to the
bar in 1858. He practised his profession
in Litchfield until 1862, when he crossed
the plains to Oregon. His family consisted
of his wife and onne child. They started
in April and arrived in August at Fort Lemhi,
Idaho. They adandonned their wagonns and
travelled on the new indian trail to the
waters of the Missouri and crossed the Rocky
Mountains three times. They followed that
to Elk City. Here they rremained for two
months while Mr. Quick engaged in the mines.
He then packed to Linn County and from there
to Washington County, and settled on 200
Acres of land North of Hillsboro. He was
engaged in Washington County, purchased 120
acres of land on the property he was engaged
on. He was engaged in Horticulture, growing
all kinds of nursery stockk. In Politics,
Mr. Quick was a democrat until the firing
upon of Ft. Sumpter when he espoused the
cause of the Union with all his heart and
joined the ranks of the republican party
where he has since proven himself a valuable
ally. In Washington County he was elected
to the State Legislature and served the session
of 1864-65 and he had the honor and pleassure
of voting upon the Thirteenth Amenment to
the Constitution of the United States.
Mr. Quick was married for the first time
to Miss Sarah Updike in 1852, she was a native
of Indiana, and it was in that state that
the ceremony
occurred.. Mr. and Mrs. Quick had two children:
Emmerson Eugenenow resides in St Helens,
Columbia County, where his is County Clerk.
The second child died as well as the mother
in 1857, and in 1858 Mr Quck married his
seconnd wife Miss Parmelia Young a native
of Kentucky, born 1840.. Mr and Mrs Quick
had seven children as follows: Sara E, wife
of Mr Thomas Fowles, Oliver Emmet resides
in Washington County, Oregon, William is
with his father on the farm, Annie , James
Warren, Fred Young and Ada Gertrude are at
home Mr. and Mrs. Quick are worthy members
of the Evangical Church in which he is an
officer .. Mr.Quick is a man of intergrity
and intelligence, and he was won a host of
friends wherever he has made his home
