CLASS OF 1855

David Quigg died of pneumonia May 18, at his home in the city of Chicago.

The son of Abel Goodrich and Lydia (Bixby) Quigg, he was born in Litchfield, N. H., December 17, 1834, and prepared for college at Gilmanton Academy.

Immediately after graduation he went to Bloomington, ill., and read law there, being admitted to practice in the fall of 1857. From May, 1858, to January, 1861, he practiced in Chicago, and then had an office for six months in Bloomington. The Civil War interrupted his practice, and he became second lieutenant of the Fourth Illinois Cavalry in July, 1861. He served with that regiment until the summer of 1862, when he was commissioned major of the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry. In the "Stoneman Raid" of August, 1864, he was taken prisoner, and was confined in prisons at Charleston and Columbia, S. C., until he was exchanged in March, 1865. In May he was promoted to be lieutenant colonel,. and was mustered out July 31, 1865. At once he resumed practice in Chicago, and so remained through his active life.

April 7, 1865, Colonel Quigg was married to Francena, daughter of Meshech and Ethelinda (Wedgewood) Pike of Bloomington, who died some years since. Their only child, Mrs. John Lincoln Porter, survives her parents.