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Show FORMER POSTMASTER AND "PiONEER OF BINGHAM DIES Barney B. Quinn, One of the Earliest Settlers in Bingham Passes Away SSuddehly in Salt Lake ipity. "' l" Among the pioneer builders in the great copper camp of Bingham was Bernard B. Quinn, a brother of P. W. Quinn and Mr Annie McGuire. Mr. Quinn served this town as postmaster for years and as justice of the peace and was one bf the leaders of the Democratic party in this state since the state was divided on party lines. He was 60 years of age at the time of his. death which occured at . his home, 715 East Third South street, Thursday afternoon at 1:15. The cause of death was diabetes, from which he had suffered for a number of years. Mr. Quinn was a very active man and was down town on Wednesday before taking sick late that night. He gradually grad-ually grew worse until he passed away the following day. ' Mr. Quinn was born at Lake Garra-cide, Garra-cide, County Leitrim, Irreland. He came to the United . States in 1882 and moved to Iowa, where he worked on a' farm until 1883, when he settled in Utah. His first position in the state was that of a clerk in a store at Bingham. Bing-ham. It was only a few months until he came to Salt Lake to become a clerk.at the CJift house. He served in this capacity until 1885, when he again moved .to Bingham. Here he accepted the management of the Bingham office of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company. ; . The next Btep upward In Mr. Quinn's career was his appointment as postmaster post-master at, .the mining camp, an office which he filled creditably until . re lieved from his duties by a change in the national administration. ' During Mr. Quinn's tenure as postmaster he acted also a$ mining recorder. For several years after his retirement from the postmastership he was justice jus-tice of the peace. From 1896 to 1900 Mr. Quinn was recorder for Salt Lake county, , being ejected two consecutive terms. TlA Irf&Vyiibltc-Offlce held by Mr. Quinn was that of license collector collec-tor for Salt Lake from 1906 until 1908 Since his retirement from public affairs af-fairs Mr. Quinn had been active in both the real estate and mining business. busi-ness. At his death he was interested in several mining properties In the Bingham district Mr. Quinn became widely known by his activities in behalf of the Democratic Demo-cratic party in Utah. He was most ardent in the organization of the party in the state and was a member of the first Democratic state committee. Although Al-though he was a staunch Democrat Mr. Quinn won many votes from the members of other parties during his political campaigns. Mr. Quinn is survived by his widow 'Mrs. Julia Coleman Quinn, a son, Bernard Ber-nard F. Quinn, two daughters, Miss Lucy and Miss Marguerite Quinn, all of Salt Lake, and by four sisters an8 two brothers. Two sisters and a brother live in Ireland. The brother and sister living in America are Francis Fran-cis W. Quinn of Bingham, Mrs. Annia iMcGuire of Bingham, Mrs. J. F. Davis of Blencoe, Iowa. i Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock Saturday morning at the Cathedral Cath-edral of the Madeleine. The funeral cortege will leave the residence at 8:30 o'clock. Burial will be in Mt Calvary cemetery. |
