The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-05-18
OBITUARY NOTICE or THE REV. JOHN p.
QUIGLEY.
DIED

At the Lincoln House Duluth, Mimi, Thursday
morning May 10th, 1872, Rev. JOHN 7. QUIGLEY, pas
tor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Superior,
and Oneota.
greater shock than when the word was
passed from one to another Thursday after
noon "Mr Quigley is dead" 1t was hard
to believe that one so full of life, aud busy
plans for good was thus cut off in the
morning of his days. Many had not heard
of his sickness, and those who had, were
not aware that it was anything of dan
gerous type, until the startling news of his
death was received.
1t is thought by some that a previous
sickness, combined with the over-eXertion
of the past winter in the long walks under
taken by him between here and the North
Shore, undermined his physical strength,
and rendered him an easy prey to disease.
The particular disease Of which he died,
/" black measles so-calIed, would seem to
indicate 4 typhus condition OF the system,
and congested state or vital disarrange-
ment of the blood.
Rev. Mr.. Quigley came to Superior about
the middle Of last October, and at once en-
tered upon his work with an energy and
enthusiasm that spoke well for present and
future usefulness. He was fresh from the
work of the Y NJ. G. A. at Oak Lake on
the Northern Pacific railway, which had
proved such a signal success. Qt IS a sad
fact that two out of the three noble young
men engaged in that work about one year
ago. are now numbered with the dead.
Prot ". Q. Hiskey Of Minneapolis, and
Rev. John p. Quigley have been called to
an early reward of their labors. Mr. Tour
ice, their sole remaining associate is now
travelling in the east with Mr.. Burnell.)
Mr.. Quigley seemed fired with the self
denying zeal that had animated him, and
his associates at Oak Lake. Ready for
every good work, he had devoted himself
in a special manner to the advocacy of the
great cause Of temperance, service with
which by early training and constant asso-
citation he was familiar; his good father
being one of the veteran temperance lee
turers and workers of the early Northwest.
Many of the citizens Of Superior will re-
call the eloquent, impassioned temperance
address delivered by Rev. Mr. Quigley on
Sabbath evening Nov. II in the NJ. E.
church. He worked up the cause BY other
lectures here, and at Rice's Point, and
Oneota; circulating the pledge and form
inc associations among the youth of each
place.
About the 1st of March the way seemed
open in the view of himself and friends, for
the establishment of live temperance pa
per at the head of Lake Superior. Conse
quently he began the publication of I" The
1ppeal," semimonthly paper devoted to
the cause named. This met with immedi-
ate success, and although but five numbers
had been issued before the untimely death
Of its talented editor, the 1ppeat had al
ready acquired standard reputation,
placed itself on a basis of sef-support, and
accomplished much good. Of this little
sheet every number seemed an advance on
that which preceded it, and the latest es-
peciaIly raised the highest hopes in the
breasts Of all Mr. Quigey's friends that he
had at last in temperance journalism, found
the true field in which to expend his fiery
zeal for truth and human welfare. The uni
verSal approval and appreciation of his ris
ing paper was a source of much pleasure to
Mr. Quigley as he felt he had ri>ked much
in starting it under the circumstances he
did. 1t IS a significant fact that the editor
of another temperance Journal in Mime
sofa, had already felt compelled to offer bis
paper and list to Mr.. O., SO fast was the
1ppeal rising in popular estimation.
The labor and care incident to its publ |
cation now that Providence seemed to smile |
upon the enterprise, led Rev Mr.. Qugley
to feel it a duty to discontinue services in !