QUIRIN, E. P. - 1914

QUIRIN, ODONNELL

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Date: 7/9/2009 at 18:18:06

HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

E. P. QUIRIN.

E. P. Quirin, owner and editor of the Cherokee Republican, has devoted his entire life to journalism, becoming connected with his present paper in 1911. He is an enterprising, ambitious young man and one of Iowas native sons, his birth having occurred in Marcus in 1889. His parents, Fred and Mary (ODonnell) Quirin, had located there in 1881. They, too, were natives of this state, having been born near Epworth, in Dubuque county, Iowa. The mother is of Irish parentage, while the father is of German descent. For a long period Fred Quirin followed agricultural pursuits but is now living retired at Marcus, Iowa.

At the usual age, E. P. Quirin entered the public schools, passing through consecutive grades until his graduation from the high school. He supplemented this by a further course in the Winona Technical Institute of Indianapolis, of which he is also an alumnus. Turning to journalism, he has since been connected with newspaper publication and his ability along this line is indicated in his growing success. The Cherokee Republican was established in May, 1907, as a weekly paper by H. M. Stuart, who about 1909 sold to J. T. Hogan. It was from Mr. Hogan that Mr. Quirin purchased the paper in 1911. Since he assumed control its circulation has increased five hundred per cent and it has an excellent advertising patronage and is doing a gratifying business in job printing. The Republican has a well equipped plant and Mr. Quirin holds to high standards of newspaper publication, catering not to the popular taste for yellow journalism. At the same time he does not hesitate to fearlessly defend and espouse the cause in which he believes or a project which he deems beneficial to the community, and, as an energetic, progressive young business man, deserves the success which he is now enjoying.