Edmund Quincy

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Edmund Quincy (born February 1, 1808 in Boston , Massachusetts , † May 17, 1877 in Dedham , Massachusetts) was an American abolitionist and writer from the influential Quincy family, which was connected to the Adams family .

Edmund Quincy was the son of Josiah Quincy III (1772-1864, Mayor of Boston, President of Harvard University) and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1773-1850). He graduated from Harvard University with a law degree in 1927 , but never worked as a lawyer, but as a writer. He wrote for The Atlantic Monthly , among others, and is known as the author of a biography of his father (1867), editor of his father's speeches (1875), author of a novel ( Wensley, a Story without a Moral , 1854) and other stories , but above all for his numerous writings against slavery. Quincy was secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Massachusetts Antislavery Society and edited the short-lived abolitionist periodical The Non-Resistant (1839-1840) together with William Lloyd Garrison and Maria Weston Chapman .

In 1868 Quincy was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1870 to the American Philosophical Society . Since 1875 he was an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society .

Quincy was married to Lucilla Pinckney Parker (1810-1860) from 1833. The marriage had five children. His grave is in Mount Auburn Cemetery .

literature

  • Edmund Quincy. In: FS Drake : Dictionary of American Biography , 1870
  • Quincy, Edmund . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 5 : Pickering - Sumter . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1888, p. 150 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Edmund Quincy. In: FS Underwood: Builders of American Literature . 1893
  • Edmund Quincy. In: The National Cyclopædia of American Biography . 1893
  • Edmund Quincy. In: The Century Cyclopedia of Names . 1904

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter Q. (PDF; 47 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
  2. ^ American Philosophical Society - Member History. In: amphilsoc.org. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Members “Q”. In: americanantiquarian.org. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Quincy, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American abolitionist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1877
Place of death Dedham , Massachusetts