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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (PRESTON QUINBY.) 



was one of the organizers of the Washington Club in 

 Paris, composed chiefly of Americans. 



Preston, Thomas Scott, a Roman Catholic prelate, born 

 in Hartford, Conn., July 23, 1824 ; died in New York 

 city, Nov. 4, 1891. His parents were Episcopalians, 

 and he inherited religious tendencies that were 

 .strengthened by education. He was graduated at 

 Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, in 1843. 

 He determined to enter the ministry, and. the more 

 fully to devote himself to religious work, decided 

 never to marry. Naturally a ritualist, he adopted the 

 high-church principles ot the English Tractarians. 

 In 1843 he entered the Protestant Episcopal Theo- - 

 logical Seminary in New York, where he was gradu- 

 ated in 1846, and was ordained deacon. He was first 

 assigned to Trinity Church, and afterward to the 

 Church of the Annunciation in 14th Street, and the 

 Church of the Holy Innocents at West Point. Bishop 

 De Lancey, of Western New York, ordained him 



Eriest. He was next called to be assistant rector of 

 t. Luke's Church, New York city, of which Dr. 

 John Murray Forbes was rector, and remained there 

 two years. Doubts as to the legitimate succession of 

 the Episcopalian hierarchy led him to the Catholic 

 Church. Wishing to enter the priesthood, he was 

 sent by Archbishop Hughes to St. Joseph's Seminary, 

 Fordham, to complete his studies, and was ordained 

 priest at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, Nov. 16, 

 1850. He acted for a. short time as assistant at the 

 cathedral; and then took charge of the mission at 

 Yonkers, where he remained two years. In 1853 the 

 dioceses of Brooklyn and Newark were erected, and 

 Dr. Loughlin was consecrated bishop of the former 

 and Father Bayley of the latter. This left the New 

 York diocese without a chancellor and Archbishop 

 Hughes without a secretary, and Father Preston was 

 recalled from Yonkers to take these places. Dr. 

 Forbes, who had been converted to Catholicism and 

 ordained .priest, and was then pastor of St. Ann's, 

 Church, in 1861 returned to the Episcopal Church, 

 and Father Preston was appointed to the vac-ant rec- 

 torship of St. Ann's, which he held until his death 

 The church, which was then in 8th Street, becoming 

 too small for the wants of the congregation, he pur- 

 chased a Jewish synagogue in 12th Street, and thither 

 the congregation removed, the new church being con- 

 secrated on New Year's day, 1871. On the death of 

 Vicar-General Starrs in 1873, Father Preston had part 

 of the duties of vicar-general added to those of the 

 chancellorship. He was a firm supporter of the paro- 

 chial-school system, believing that the education of 

 the young should devolve upon the Church, and to 

 exemplify his belief he built a commodious school- 

 house on llth Street. Seton Hall College, in 1880, 

 conferred upon him the degree of S. T. D., and Pope 

 Leo XIII created him a monsignor, Dec. 13, 1881 

 Monsignor Preston vigorously opposed the land and 

 labor movement of Henry George in 1886, and de- 

 clared the principles of the Labor party to be un- 

 sound and opposed to Catholic belief. When Dr. 

 Edward McGlynn espoused the cause of Henry 

 George, Monsignor Preston was one of the first to 

 move against that priest, and, by representing Mr 

 George's doctrines as an attack on the rights of 

 property, he did much to procure the defeat of the 

 latter and the excommunication of Dr. McGlynn. 

 Monsignor Preston was created prothonotary apos- 

 tolic Aug. 21, 1888, which gave him the title of right 

 reverend. He was an ardent advocate of the tem- 

 poral power of the Pope, and wrote many controver- 

 sial and devotional works. 



Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin, clergyman, born in Cam- 

 bridge, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1814; died in New York city, 

 April 7, 1891. He was a son of the Rev. Nathaniel S. 

 Prime, and a brother of the Rev. Samuel Irenseus 

 Prime, and was graduated at Union College in 1832 

 and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1838. In 

 1839-'51 he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in 

 Scotchtown, N. Y. ; in 1852 became pastor of the 

 Sfith Street Church in New York city ; in 1853-'54 

 was editorially connected with the New York " Ob- 



server"; in 1854-'55 was chaplain of the American 

 embassy in Eome, Italy ; ana subsequently was an 

 editor on the " Observer " till the death of his brothei 

 in 1885. He received his degree from Jefferson Col- 

 lege, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1857. Besides his editorial 

 and special writings he had published u Around the 

 World " (New York, 1872) ; " Forty Years in the 

 Turkish Empire," (1875; 6th ed 1883); "Calvinism 

 and Missions." " Civil and Keligious Liberty in Tur- 

 key," and " Notes, Genealogical, Biographical, and 

 Bibliographical of the Prime iTamily " (1888). 



Qninby, Isaac Ferdinand, soldier and educator, born 

 near Morristown, N. J., Jan. 29, 1821 ; died in Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., Sept, 18, 1891. lie was graduated at 

 West Point in 1843, standing sixth in his class on the 



general score, and first in engineering. Ulvsses S. 

 Grant was his classmate. He was appointed brevet 

 2d lieutenant of artillery, and served in garrison ut 

 Fort Mifflin, Pa., in 1843-'44. He was an instructor 

 at West Point in 1845-'47, and in 1847-'48 served 

 with the army in Mexico. He was next in garrison 

 at Fort Monroe and at Fort Adams, E. I., as quarter- 

 master, as adjutant, and as assistant adjutant-general, 

 with the rank of 1st lieutenant. In March, 1862, he 

 resigned his commission, and became Professor ot 

 Mathematics in the newly founded University of 

 Rochester. N. Y. At the beginning of the civil war, 

 in the spring of 1861, he accepted the colonelcy of the 

 13th New York Infantry (a Kochester regiment), and 

 with it passed through Baltimore a little while after 

 the bloody attack on the 6th Massachusetts Regiment 

 in that city. Col. Quinby ordered the muskets to be 

 loaded before the men left the cars, and immediately 

 on alighting the first and last companies were thrown 

 across the street from curb to curb, with the other 

 companies by fours between, and in this order it 

 crossed the city, defying molestation from the mob. 

 The same soldierly precaution might have saved the 

 lives that were lost by the mismanagement of the 

 6th Massachusetts. Col. Quinby led "his regiment 

 gallantly at the battle of Bull Eun, where it formed a 

 part of Sherman's brigade ; but his resignation two 

 weeks later was one of the results of the demorali- 

 zation that had lost the battle. He returned to his 

 professorship, and retained it until the spring of 1862, 

 when, on March 17, he was commissioned brigadier 

 general of volunteers. This appointment is said to 

 have followed from Gen. Grant's inquiry where he was, 

 and" why so valuable an officer was allowed to remain 

 uncommissioned. How well, on the other hand, Quin- 

 by understood Grant, is shown by an incident that took 

 place between the capture of Fort Henry and that of 

 Fort Donelson. A group of college boys were discuss- 



