Typosium excerpts and quotes in
- American Stationer and Office Manager, May 9, 1925
- Visalia Morning Delta (California), June 24, 1925 and June 28, 1925
- California Highways, August 1925
- The Rustler (King City, California), September 4, 1925
- Merced Express (California), October 1, 1926
- The Inland Printer, July 1927
- Sacramento Daily Union (California), February 2, 1928
A Few Details About Laurie John Quinby
Laurie John Quinby was born on December 8, 1868 in Covington, Kentucky according to Genealogical History of the Quinby (Quimby) Family in England and America (1915). His parents were Joseph Bailey Quinby and Annie Laurie. Quinby explained why he changed his birth name.
“Because I was born on the birthday of my mother’s brother, John Laurie, they named me for him. Later in life I preferred to reverse the order of these names, calling myself Laurie John; you see the tendency always was with me to arrange things to suit myself. For doing this, however, I had some reason. In those days there was a prize fighter who had made himself quite notorious. His name was John L. Sullivan. I had no liking for ‘sluggers,’ and so boys and men, whether to irritate me or not, would speak of me as John L., just as they did of him. I did not like that. Then I thought that Laurie J. Quinby sounded a bit more euphonious, that it was better balanced and such like things, all of which at that time did and still do seem sufficient reason for my writing my name as I please. Then a name is only a label, and I see no reason why any one should not be conceded the right to write his name as he chooses, regardless of any other consideration. However, I have always gone on the theory that if I have ever done anything I should be sorry for I am glad of it, for in the doing of those things we at least learn the lessons of right conduct. We learn what not to do the next time. ...
The 1870 United States Census counted six-and-a-half-month-old Quinby (line four) as the youngest of seven siblings. The family lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. Quinby’s father was a newspaper editor (line 36).
In the 1880 census, the Quinby family (lines two through nine) were residents on Jefferson Street of Dayton, Kentucky. Three of Quinby’s older brothers were printers.
On March 12, 1892, Quinby married Cora A. Clinkinbeard at Boyd, Kentucky.
Direct Legislation Record, September 1900, reviewed, on page 48, Quinby’s booklet, The Open Door.
According to the 1900 census, Quinby (line 53), his wife and daughter, Minerva, made their home in Omaha, Nebraska. They were lodgers in the Majors household at 223 Howard Street. Quinby was a printer.
Quinby (line 34) had the same profession in the 1910 census. His family lived in Dundee, Nebraska at 4916 Dodge Street.
Quinby attended and spoke at the first annual picnic of the printing trades of Omaha.
The 1920 census, enumerated January 13, listed Quinby on line 45. The magazine editor lived in Seattle, Washington at 907 Boren Avenue.
A month later on February 12, 1920, which was Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, published Quinby’s “Abraham Lincoln”.
In the early 1920s Quinby moved to Los Angeles, California where his wife, Cora, passed away on July 8, 1923.
In 1925, the Typosium published Three Paths: An Allegorical Romance which was written by Wallace Clifton, a pseudonym of Quinby.
The 1930 census said Quinby (line 14), his daughter and granddaughter, Jocelyn, lived at 1717 North Alexandria Avenue in Los Angeles. His household included five lodgers. Sixty-one-year-old Quinby was not working.
Seven-and-a-half months later, Quinby passed away on November 17, 1940 in Los Angeles. He was laid to rest at Hollywood Forever.
The Lincoln Star (Nebraska), November 22, 1940, said
Laurie Quinby, Former State Senator, Dies
Omaha, Nov. 22—Friends here were notified today of the death at Los Angeles Nov. 16 of Laurie J. Quinby, 71, one time prominent Omahan and a state senator in 1914.
The Freeman, January 1941, said
Laurie J. Quinby died in Los Angeles on November 17, after a long illness. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Quinby, a veteran Georgist, was for many years engaged in journalism and politics. He had published several books, and was much sought after as a public speaker. He wrote his own obituary, an inspired work which is published in the current issue of Land and Freedom.
Mr. Quinby’s body was cremated. He is survived by his widow, Harriet Quinby; by a daughter, Minerva Quinby Ingold, and a granddaughter, Jocelyn Ingold.
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