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Ivory Quinby
Ivory Quinby (14 July 1817 – 23 October 1869) was an American businessman who was notably one of the earliest benefactors of Monmouth College, and also helped establish Monmouth, Illinois as a transportation center.
==Early life==
Ivory Quinby I was born on July 14, 1817, in Buxton, Maine. He was named after his mother’s former husband, Ivory Fenderson, who had died four years earlier.〔Reigel, page 412〕 His parents were Asa and Mehitable (née Milliken) Quinby. He had a brother and sister, named Rodney and Elizabeth. He came from a very old New England family, who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638.〔Dyni, Anne ''Quinby Family Genealogy''〕 At fifteen, he was enrolled at Waterville College. After graduating on August 3, 1836 with honors, Quinby moved to Parsonsfield, Maine, to live with his uncle Hosea Quinby, where he was employed by Parsonsfield Seminary, a Free Will Baptist academy, as an assistant teacher. Quinby left to study law in Saco under Judge Shepley.〔 By the time he was twenty, he had decided to travel to Illinois, with all of his money, with was about $125.00. He arrived in Quincy, Illinois, in 1837, and met two men named John Mitchell and O.H. Browning, who advised that he move to Monmouth, Illinois, for the purpose of buying up land patents. The U.S. Government at the time granted land patents to veterans of the War of 1812, who rarely kept them. Instead, they sold the property to people like Quinby and a colleague of his, Elijah Winslow, who then resold the land to settlers.〔Merchant, Steve ''Elijah Winslow of Unity, Maine & Ivory Quinby of Illinois-Military Land Bounty Speculators''〕 Quinby and Mitchell walked fifteen miles from Oquawka, Illinois to Monmouth, and established a law firm.
With his remaining savings, Quinby bought 8,000 acres in Warren County.〔State of Illinois, Illinois Public Land Records (on-line ). Provom UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. (ancestry.com)〕
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