Husband George H. Quaill 1
Born: 23 Feb 1855 - Ross Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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Father: David Reel Quaill (Abt 1829-Aft 1904) 1 2
Mother: Sarah J. Shafer ( - ) 1 2
Marriage: 1881 3
Wife Mattie L. Bruce 3
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1 F Roberta Quaill 3
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2 M David Harper Quaill 3
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3 F Martha V. Quaill 3
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General Notes: Husband - George H. Quaill
He obtained his education, until he was twelve years of age, in the public schools of the township where he was born, then spent two years at a business college in the city of Pittsburgh, after which he finished his education at the Pennsylvania state normal school, at Millersville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1873. Always a good student, he stood among the best in his classes and graduated with distinction. He taught school two years, then read law with his uncle, Noah W. Shafer, and was admitted to the Pittsburgh bar on Feb. 23, 1878, where he at once took a prominent place as a general practitioner.
Although a busy attorney, however, he found time for making himself useful in the community in which he lived. He was always prominent in church circles. As a member of the Bellevue Methodist Episcopal church he was honored in turn with every office the church had at its disposal. He was president of the board of trustees for more than twenty years. He was also an active worker in the Sunday-school and was at his best when he was standing in the presence of a large Bible class. He was also prominent in lodge circles, being a past master of Bellevue lodge, No. 530, Free and Accepted Masons. For ten years he was an instructor in the Pittsburgh school of Masonic instruction, and in 1900, as a reward for his services to the craft, he was honored with the appointment as district deputy grand master for that Masonic district. He was famous as an after-dinner speaker, and his responses to toasts at Masonic banquets won for him applause on many occasions and caused his brethren to speak of him as the Chauncey Depew of Bellevue lodge. But the place where he was at his best was in his home, which he enriched with the literature of the world and embellished with the beauties of art. He gathered together, year after year, from the standard authors and recent productions, as they appeared, history, biography, theology, fiction, poetry, science and general literature, until he had the finest private library in the town. He believed that the refining and educating influence of books and pictures in the home amply repays all the expenditures made in that direction. His love of learning he got from his mother, who was a gentle, ambitious and delicately-organized woman of culture and refinement, but who did not live to see the professional, social and business triumphs of her son, of which she had so fondly dreamed, and to fit and prepare him to accomplish which, she had made so many sacrifices.
General Notes: Wife - Mattie L. Bruce
from Beaver Co, PA