Re: James C. McQuigg Bio: Pana, Christian Co, Illlinois
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James C. McQuigg Bio: Pana, Christian Co, Illlinois
Jerry McAfee 4/13/08
THE
BENCH AND BAR
OF
ILLINOIS.
HISTORICAL AND REMINISCENT.
EDITED BY
JOHN M. PALMER,
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM A NUMBER OF THE FOREMOST MEMBERS OK THE
LEGAL PROFESSION IN THE STATE.
VOLUME I.
CHICAGO:
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY,
1899.
Copyright, 1899,
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Chicago.
v.l
James C. McQuigg, a representative of the Pana bar, was born [in Wooster,
Ohio, on the 1st of August, 1840](note: James was actually born in Co. Antrim, Ireland and came to the USA in 1843 with his parents and siblings), and is a son of John and Sarah (McAfee)
McQuigg. The parents were natives of county Antrim, Ireland, and in the latter
part of the '305 came to this country. The father died February i, 1885, at the
age of eighty years, and the mother passed away in March, 1897, at the advanced
age of ninety-two years. They had nine children, all of whom are yet living.
576 THE BENCH AND BAR OF ILLINOIS.
James McQuigg was reared in the state of his nativity and acquired his
preliminary education in the common schools. In 1861 he responded to his
country's call for troops, enlisting for three years as a member of Company C,
Sixteenth Ohio Infantry. With his command "he went to the front, participated
in all the engagements in which it took part, and at the battle of Vicksburg
was wounded, after which he was sent to the hospital. When the war was over
and the country no longer needed his services he returned to his home and con-
tinued his education in Vermillion College, of Ohio. Subsequently he began
the study of law, in Wooster, Ohio, under the direction of Captain A. S. McClure, afterward member of congress, and when he had gained a good knowl-
edge of the fundamental principles of the science of jurisprudence he matricu-
lated in the Ann Arbor law school, where he continued his studies from 1865
until his graduation in the class of 1867.
In May of the latter year Mr. McQuigg opened his law office in Pana,
where he has since made his home. In the 1875 he was elected and served for
one term as city attorney, and in 1876 was a candidate for state's attorney, but
though the county went Democratic by a vote of over nine hundred he was
defeated by only eighty-three votes, a fact which indicates his personal popu-
larity and shows the support which he received from the opposition party. In
politics he has always been a stalwart Republican, and served as presidential
elector in 1880. He engaged in the general practice of law and is now enjoying
a fair share of the public patronage in his line. He is married and his pleasant
home in Pana is blessed with a son and a daughter, Myron and Florence.
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