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Portrait and biographical album of Mecosta County, Mich.
containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent
and representative citizens of the county, together with
portraits and biographies of all the governors of Michigan
and of the presidents of the United States: also containing a
complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement
to the present time.

Published by Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL, 1883

Judith Anne Weeks Ancell
April 6, 2011
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Page 183 - 184
QUIGLEY, David
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David Quigley is a farmer in sec. 4, Deerfield Tp.; P. O. Morley.  His
parents, George and Jane Quigley, were natives respectively of New York
and Wales.  They were married in the Dominion of Canada and removed thence
to Newaygo Co., Mich., in 1854.  After a brief residence there they came
to Mecosta Co., and located on sec. 4 of Deerfield Tp.  They were the
first white settlers of town 13 north, of range 9 west, now Deerfield, and
there took up their residence in 1859.  James Quigley, brother of David,
was born in 1859, and was the first white child whose birth occurred in
Deerfield.  George Quigley was acting Justice of the Peace and performed
the first marriage ceremony in the township in December, 1862.  The
contracting parties were Isaac Sedore and Elizabeth Smith.  Mr. Quigley
afterwards went to Montcalm County, where he now lives.

David Quigley was born in Canada, Feb. 22, 1850, and came to Michigan with
his parents when four years of age.  His early life was passed amid the
pioneer scenes of this section of the Peninsular State.  He has spent all
his life on a farm.  At the age of 23 he bought, in Deerfield Tp., 58
acres of land, with some improvements, but took possession in 1876 and was
there resident until 1883, when he rented a farm containing 60 acres.

He was married in Montcalm Co., in the winter of 1875, to Lavinia,
daughter of Robert and Jane Pixley.  They have two children:  Bertie, born
July 31, 1877, and Earl R., Sept. 18, 1882.  The parents of Mrs. Quigley
were both born in New York.  Mr. Quigley is a Republican; himself and wife
are members of the Methodist Church.

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