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- LeRoy E. Quinlan, a native of Kansas, was born at Hoisington May 22, 1893.
His grandfather, Charles Michael Quinlan, was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1832, came to America when a young man, settled on a farm in Indiana, married there, and enlisted and went all through the Civil War as a Union soldier. He was with General Sherman on the Atlanta campaign and march to the sea and after the war he resumed farming and in a few years brought his family to Barton County, Kansas. He finally retired from the farm and spent his last years in Woods County, Oklahoma, where he died in 1902.
W. J. Quinlan, father of LeRoy Quinlan, was born April 6, 1869, in Northern Indiana and was a small child when his parents came out to Barton County, Kansas. In that frontier district he grew up and married and spent several years as a railroad man. At the opening of the Cherokee strip in 1893 W. J. went to Oklahoma, joined in the rush, and was one of those fortunate in securing a homestead. He acquired 160 acres near Alva in Woods County and continued to live in that part of Oklahoma until 1911, when he returned to Kansas and located in Rice County. Here he continued farming. Politically he was a democrat. W. J. Quinlan married Lucy Hamilton, who was born in Southern Pennsylvania September 4, 1873.
LeRoy was the oldest of their five children. Arthur was a soldier in the new National Army. Harry died at the age of six months, and the next child, also a son, died in infancy. Helen was the youngest of the family. LeRoy E. Quinlan was taken to Oklahoma during his infancy and his first recollections are of the country around Alva. He attended the rural schools of Woods County and also the Alva public schools and completed the course through the junior year at the Northwestern State Normal at Alva. On returning to Kansas he entered the Lyons High School, where he graduated in 1912.
Mr. Quinlan soon afterwards took up the study of law at Washburn College in Topeka, and was granted his LL. B. degree in 1916. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and at once began attacking the problems and difficulties of practice at Lyons. In 1916, soon after returning from college, he was elected county attorney on the democratic ticket.
Mr. Quinlan was a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Lyons, and had memberships in the Rice County, the State and American Bar associations. On January 28, 1917, at Alva, Oklahoma, he married Miss Irene Rebber, a daughter of C. H. and Myra (Lewis) Rebber, and her parents lived at Alva, where her father was a merchant.
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