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M Colin Birch Quick

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History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.

1881 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Quick Cornelius, M, Widowed, 48, born Ont, origin: German, Methodist Canada, Carpenter & Joiner;
Mary, F, 23, born Ont, origin: German, Methodist Canada;
Colin, M, 21, born Ont, origin: German, Methodist Canada, Carpenter;
Clifford, M, 16, born Ont, origin: German, Methodist Canada;
James B., M, 12, born Ont, origin: German, Methodist Canada;
Cecil, F, 1, born Ont, origin: German, Methodist Canada.

1901 personal census, Pelee Island, Essex Co., ON, L-11 :
Quick Colin B., M, Married, 6 Aug 1860, 40, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Farmer's Ast;
Eliza W., F, wife, Married, 30 Aug 1862, 38, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Angus R., M, son, Single, 12 Sept 1883, 17, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Student;
Milton C., M, son, Single, 25 Aug 1885, 15, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, 8 months in school;
Edna P., F, daughter, Single, 21 May 1888, 12, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, 11 months in school.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 120-121:
Among those who have made themselves felt in the material development of County Essex is Colin Birch Quick, who was born in Gosfield township, that county, Aug. 6, 1859, a son of Cornelius M. and Catherine (Wigle) Quick. It is supposed that he is descended from the Quicks of Cornwall, England, a large family, several representatives of which came to the New World about the time of the revolution of the American colonies. They located in the State of Kentucky, not far from Cincinnati, Ohio.
     Cornelius and Elizabeth (Knapp) Quick, great-grandparents of Colin B., owned and operated a farm in the south-eastern part of Leamington. The parents of Cornelius Quick lived in Ohio. They were captured by the Indians and kept in captivity six years, being released on the advice of the Hudson Bay Company. They then located in the township of Colchester South, County of Essex, and took up land, there spending the remainder of their lives.
     Cornelius Quick (2), son of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Knapp) Quick, was one of the earliest settlers of Gosfield North, afterwards removing to Mersea township. He married Catherine Malott.
     Cornelius M. Quick, son of Cornelius (2) was born in Gosfield North, Jan. 26, 1833. He was a boy of ten years when his parents removed to Mersea township, where he was reared and educated. Here it was that he learned the trade of a carpenter, and followed it all his life. After his marriage he purchased a residence in Gosfield, where he lived a few years and then bought a portion of the homestead in Mersea, which he still owns, but for the past twenty years he has made his home with his several children. He married Catherine Wigle, who was born in Gosfield, of Scottish ancestry, and who died in 1868, aged thirty-eight. They had six children: Colin B.; D. Clifford, of Romney township, County of Kent, who married Mary Markle; Bird, who died at the age of twenty-five; Minnie, who wedded Alfred Killington, of Cottam; and Judson and Mina, who both died young. In politics Mr. Quick is an ardent Reformer, and is a man of strong character and upright principles, closely identified with the Methodist Church, as is also his wife.
     Colin B. Quick was reared at home, and acquired a fair education in the common schools. He was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade under his father, and worked at this trade for nine years, when he went to Pelee Island on a visit. Being favorably impressed with the business opportunities offered there, he determined to make it his home. Accordingly he erected a business block, and opened a first-class mercantile establishment. Two years later he sold his stock, and bought the property in which he had conducted his business, together with 68 acres of land, and he has since then been actively engaged in farming, and in buying and selling hogs and grain, being very successful. In politics he is a stanch Liberal, and for the past eight years has served as postmaster. For the last seven years he has been customs officer of the port of North Dock, of Pelee Island. Mr. Quick has also had the telephone office for the past six years, and for the same length of time he has been dock master at Scudder Dock. In addition to his other interests, Mr. Quick is the local representative of the Deering Machine Co., and for the past four years has been agent for J. L. Scott of Chatham, buying grain, but recently he entered the employ of A. J. Green, of Windsor, in the same capacity. For two terms Mr. Quick has served as a member of the town council, and has in every way possible contributed of his time and money to secure the advancement of Pelee Island. Like other members of his family, he is very prominent in the Methodist Church, and in it, and throughout the entire county, he is regarded as a man worthy of fullest confidence, for he has never betrayed a trust, or failed to do what he considered his highest duty.
     On May 23, 1882, Mr. Quick was married to Eliza M. Mifflin, of Kent, Ont., who was born Aug. 30, 1841, daughter of Solomon S. and Margaret A. (Derbyshire) Mifflin, natives of Devonshire, England, and County of Essex, respectively. Three children have blessed this union: Angus R., Milton C. and Edna P. Solomon S. Mifflin was brought by his father to the County of Kent, Ont., when but twelve years of age, and there he remained engaged in farming pursuits. He died in June, 1899, aged sixty-five, and his wife in September, 1890, aged fifty-five. They were members of the Methodist Church. Their children were: Mary S., who married William Ilman, of the County of Kent; Eliza M., Mrs. Quick; Margaret E., deceased wife of George Dent; Darius C., a farmer in Kent; Minnie L., who married Clifford Quick, of Kent; Florence, who married George Dent, of Merlin, Ont.; Enoch, a farmer at Glenwook, Ont.; Brock and George, farmers in Kent; and Miss Priscilla G. M., of Merlin.

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Cornelius Quick 1806-   Catherine Malott 1812-1888   James Wigle 1815-   Mary Ruthven
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Cornelius Malott Quick 1833-1917   Catherine Wigle 1837-1876
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Colin Birch Quick 1860-