KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. yA We 
VII. NECROLOGY. 
JAMES BRADLEY QUINTARD 
Was born in Norwalk, Conn., October 21, 1839, and lived there until about ten 
years of age, when he moved with his parents to Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was one 
of nine children—four girls and five boys. 
When about twenty-one he met and married a Miss Maddie Watkins. In the 
summer of 1860 he brought his bride to the wild prairie ten miles west of the 
infant city of Topeka, and has since lived on the home selected then. His family 
consisted of eight girls. 
Having had few educational advantages nan a boy, he applied himself to 
various studies while providing for his growing girls, and in this way became 
proficient in mathematics, navigation, geology, and conchology. At one time he 
helped Prof. F. W. Cragin make a collection of the shells of Kansas for Wash- 
burn College. 
Mr. Quintard lost his wife in the fall of 1896, and the following June his 
youngest daughter, a girl of nineteen, died. Two years later another daughter 
was laid away. 
He died at his home near Silver Lake, December 17, 1899. His large collec- 
tion of land, fresh-water and marine shells has been presented by his daughters. 
to the Academy of Science, and is on exhibition at the state capitol. 
