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| The Quinn story began in America in 1850,
when Michael Quinn came to New York, to escape the great Irish
potato famine. Michael Quinn found work as a surveyor, mapping
out Western Queens County under General George McClellan (later,
commander of the Union Army during the Civil War). The borough
of Queens was a little more than farmland and unspoiled forest
back then… but Michael Quinn apparently liked what he saw and
settled in the village of Astoria with his wife Mary Malone.
In July 1871, a son, Thomas was born. (more) |
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