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QUILLIAN, WILLIAM FLETCHER JR

Born: 4-13-1913  Nashville TN                                   married: Margaret Hannah Weigle

Died:                                                                           obit:

1942    admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1931-35           student, Emory University in Atlanta GA

1935-38           Yale Divinity School in Ne Haven CT

1938-41

1941-45           faculty, Gettysburg College (beginning 9/41)

1945                 transfer to Ohio Conference

1945-52           faculty, Ohio Wesleyan University

1952                 transfer to Virginia Conference

1952-78           president, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College

1978                 retired

Note: William F. Quillian is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 1063.  He is descended from a line of like-named Methodist pastors.  He is the son of William Fletcher Quillian (1880-1960) of the South Georgia Conference, and the grandson of William Fletcher Quillian (1843-1905) of the North Georgia Conference.  The Quillian family produced over a dozen Methodist ministers, many of them quite prominent, starting with our William F. Quillian’s great-great grandfather James Quillian (1793-1869) of the North Georgia Conference.

QUIMBY, CHESTER WARREN

Born: 6-17-1891  Tilton NH                                         married: Nellie Lowrie Earles

Died: 4-19-1972                                                          obit:

1917    ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference

1921    admitted on trial, North West Kansas Conference

1928    ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: North Mississippi Conference 1972, ?

1918-20           faculty, Fargo College

1920-23           faculty, Kansas Wesleyan University

1923-27           [pastorates in NJ and NY]

1927                 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1927-35           faculty, Dickinson College

1935-36           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1936-38           Burnham

1938-40           Saxton

1940-45           Mifflinburg

1945-46           Danville St. Paul’s

1946-48           faculty, Ohio Wesleyan University

1948-51           faculty, Cornell College in Mt. Vernon IA

1951                 transfer to Louisville Conference

Note: Chester W. Quimby is listed in the 1952 Who’s Who in Methodism, page 549.  He is the grandson of the prominent Silas Everard Quimby (1837-1913) of the New Hampshire Conference.  He is the author of many books, several of which are on file in the conference archives.

QUIMBY, KARL KLINE

Born: 11-26-1887  Pottersville NJ                              married: Lillian Marten

Died: 8-18-1982  Atlanta GA                                     obit: Newark Conference 1964, 183

1914    admitted on trial, Northern New Jersey Conference

1914    ordained elder, Northern New Jersey Conference

1916    ordained elder, Northern New Jersey Conference

Interment:      

Obit: Northern New Jersey Conference 1983, 382

1909-11           student, Dickinson College

                             1909-11  Greencastle, Central Pennsylvania Conference (ending fall 1911)

1911-14           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1914-16           West Orange

1916-20           Irvington

1920-26           Roseville

1926-36           Ridgewood (ending 10/36)

1936-41           superintendent, Jersey City District (10/36 – 2/41)

1941-58           executive secretary, Methodist Missionary Board (beginning 2/41)

1958                 retired

                             1958-62  staff, American Bible Society