Representative Richard Quinton View All Years

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Richard Quinton

Jefferson County

Born in 1801 in Kentucky. He moved west and served in the United States Army during the Black Hawk War. He represented Keokuk County in the House of Representatives of the Fourth Legislative Assembly of the Iowa Territory from 1841 to 1842, and was a delegate to the 1844 Iowa Constitutional Convention in Iowa City. He is recorded as living with his wife, Margaret Morgan, in Mahaska, Iowa, in 1850, and Bridgeport, Nevada, California, in 1860, and as a widower in Chico, Butte, California, in 1880. Mr. Quinton died in California in 1885.

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