Quick, Charles D.

QUICK

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 23:54:21

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.832

CHARLES D. QUICK
Charles D. Quick, who owns and operates a farm of two hundred and three acres on section 19, Greenfield Township, is a native son of Iowa, having been born in Davis County on the 12th of April 1842, the son of James and Elizabeth (Goodin) Quick. His father was a carpenter and contractor by trade, and as such did not confine his labors to any particular section, but sought those fields where the best opportunities presented themselves from time to time He was born and reared in Virginia, where he early learned the carpenter's trade. When a young man he went to Warren County, Indiana, where he was married to Miss Elizabeth Goodin, a native of England. Mr. Quick worked at the carpenter's trade for several years and about 1840 re­moved to Iowa, settling first in Van Buren County and later in Davis County. It was there that our subject was born and there that he had the misfortune to lose his mother, who died in 1847. Following his wife's death, James Quick took his family of little children, consisting of four sons and one daugh­ter, back to Indiana, where our subject was reared and educated. In 1857 Mr. Quick again came to Iowa, locating in Warren County. Here he learned of the extensive building operations that were going on in St. Joseph, Mis­souri, and removed to that point, where he engaged in contract work for several years. From St. Joseph he removed to Vermilion County, Illinois, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying at the ripe old age of ninety-six years. His children are all yet living with the exception of one son.
At the outbreak of the Civil War when the first call was issued for volun­teers for three months' service, Charles D. Quick joined Company B of the Tenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was sent east, his first engagement being at Rich Mountain, Virginia. At the expiration of the three months term of enlistment he was discharged and returned to his home. He later en­listed in Company F, Seventy-second Indiana, Volunteer Infantry, and near the close of the war was transferred to Company D, Forty-fourth Indiana Mounted Infantry, with which company he was engaged in the battles of Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain and was in the Atlanta campaign. He was also with Sherman on his famous march to the sea. After the capture of Jefferson Davis he had the gratification of seeing him in person and also the other members of his family. Mr. Quick was honorably discharged from army service in August, 1865, when he returned to his home in Indiana and engaged in the livery business for a year, after which he conducted farming operations until in 1867, when he removed to Warren County, Iowa, and located near Summerset in Lincoln Township. He here engaged in farming for several years and then went to Colfax County, Nebraska, where he entered a home­stead and took a tree claim. There he remained for thirty years, converting his land into a finely improved, well cultivated place. He sold this property in 1902 and bought his present home in Greenfield Township where, in connec­tion with farming, he deals in live-stock, both raising and buying in the open market.
On December 31, 1869, was celebrated the marriage of Charles D. Quick and Mary Elizabeth Shover, a daughter of Alexander Shover. Mrs. Quick is a native of this county, as were her parents, both of whom she had the mis­fortune to lose when but a child. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Quick were born ten children, of whom two, Horace and Neva, died in infancy. Those living are: Minnie, who is the wife of W. June, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and has six children, five sons and one daughter; Lottie, who is the wife of Ivey Frances, of Iliff, Colorado, and has one son and one daughter; Charles D., Jr., a resident of Colfax County, Nebraska, who is married and has one son and one daughter; Harrison, residing in the same county, who also has one son and one daughter; Bertha, who is the wife of Fred Onstott, of Ringgold County, Iowa, and has two sons; Cozie, the wife of Albert Rosander ; Eva and Ethel, who reside at home with their parents.
In politics Mr. Quick is independent, supporting the principles and meas­ures which he thinks best represent his country's interests, regardless of party lines. He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which organization he joined in Schuyler, Nebraska. It will be seen from the foregoing sketch that Mr. Quick has been prominently identified with the growth and development of this section of the country from the opening of the first agricultural fair in Warren County, which he had the honor to attend, down to the present time. He also can lay claim to the distinction of having driven the first six-yoke ox team to break prairie in Warren County.