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J OSEPH THATCHER WOODS, M. D., enjoys a large and lucrative practice, and is a prom- inent member of his profession in Toledo. He occupies the chair of Surgery in the To- ledo Medical College, and is now serving as Health Officer of the city. He has been engaged in prac- tice here for over a quarter of a century, and has given especial attention to surgery. In 1868 he was appointed Professor of Physiology in the Cleveland Medical College, and continued to give lectures in that institution for the following six years. He organized the first corps of railway sur- geons, and called their first meeting, which con- vened at Danville, Ill., and before that honorable body he read a very interesting and carefully pre- pared paper. He was also present at the conven-
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tion of 1882, which was held at Ft. Wayne, Ind., and at the one which met at Springfield, Ill., April 3, 1884. His office, at No. 11 Gradolph Bloek, is centrally and conveniently located for the pur- pose.
The Doctor is a son of Amos and Rebeeea (Thatcher) Woods, who were both natives of Fay- ette County, Pa., and were among the pioneers of the Buckeye State. The father came here with his parents in 1802, and the mother in 1827, after her marriage with Amos Woods. The latter, who was a farmer by occupation, was an industrious and hard-working man, who attended strictly to his own affairs, and thus won the respect of his friends and neighbors. His father was Josephi Woods, and his grandfather Jacob, the latter being a native of Germany, who came to the New World to found a home about 1700.
The birth of Dr. Woods occurred in Columbiana County, Ohio, Mareh 16, 1828. He is the eldest of four children, one brother and sister still liv- ing. When nine years old he removed with his parents to Portage County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and helped his father to elear a new farm. He attended the district school in the neighborhood, and a select sehool for three months. Tlus covered about all his advantages in that di- rection, but he was fond of reading and study, and endeavored to improve his time. When he had reached a suitable age for determining his fu- ture life work, he decided to become a physician, and so took up the study of medieine in the office of Dr. James Ferguson, of New Baltimore, Ohio, and later studied under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph Price, of Randolph, Portage County.
After completing his preparatory studies, young Woods entered the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and grad- uated therefrom in 1855. He commenced bis practiee at Williamstown, Haneoek County, Ohio, where he was located until 1862. At that time lie was appointed Surgeon of the Ninety-ninth Ohio Infantry, and was with the Fourth and Twenty- third Army Corps. He was at the front with his command during his entire service, a period of three years. In 1865 he resumed general praetiee at Findlay, Ohio, where he continued for two
years, thence coming to Toledo. Politieally his influence and ballot are used in support of the Re- publiean party, with which he has been affiliated since its organization.
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R EV. PATRICK F. QUIGLEY, D. D. One of the most distinguished theologians in the Catholic Church in the United States, and one who has likewise gained favorable men- tion in other countries, is Dr. Quigley, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Chureli of Toledo. Through study in America and Europe, he lias gained a breadth of culture and depth of learning that bring him into prominence in his ehureh in both the Old and the New World. As an authority on canon law he has acquired special prominence, and his views on some recondite branchies of that subject have at different times been given to the publie. Many of his family took part in the Revolutionary War, as is evidenced by General Stryker's book on the names of the New Jersey men in that war. "The History of Summit County, Ohio," published at Chicago in 1881, gives many interesting facts about the Quigleys of Akron Ohio.
The family of which Dr. Quigley is an immedi- ate and honored representative is one of the most aneient and honorable of Ireland. His aneestors, who some centuries ago spelled the family name O'Coigley, for several suceessive generations re- sided in the vieinity of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. Later, more than two centuries ago, they removed to Queen's County and settled near Dub- lin. Among the most noted of the naine were Archbishop O'Quigley, and later, Rev. Dr. Quigley, who was one of the first vietims of the memorable Rebellion of '98, having been executed at Penen- den Heath, May 7 of that year. His intimaey with Lord Conclurry caused the imprisonment of the
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latter in the Tower of London. The ancient arms of the family, on which is eantoned the celebrated "Red Hand of Ulster," still borne by the members here, attest their illustrious station in Irish history. In early times individual names were indicative of personal qualities. "Quigley," in Irish, signi- fies "tall hero," and the Ohio representatives of the family, all of whom are over six feet tall, and every one of whom lias won his way to honorable distinction, show that they are in every sense wor- thy of their ancient name.
The father of our subjeet, Martin Quigley, was born in Timahoe, Queen's County, Ireland, No- vember 11, 1805. He was the next to the young- est of fourteen children, there being seven sons and seven daughters. The children were educated partly in parochial schools and partly by private tutors. The eldest, Cornelius, was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. Patrick, who died in 1874, in Queen's County, at the age of eighty- four, founded the Leinster Independent, the leading paper of the county. He owned more than one. hundred houses in Maryboro, the county seat; farmed over five hundred acres, and was one of the most popular men for miles around, being re- speeted for his ability as a Magistrate, his enter- prise as a citizen, and an unfailing supply of hu- mor, which rendered him a delightful companion.
In Queen's County, in 1839, Martin Quigley married Miss Mary Ann Moore, a descendant of the ancient family of O'Moores, formerly Kings of Leinster and Prinees of Leix and Offaly. Her brother, Hon. James Moore, who represented Bos- ton in the Legislature of Massachusetts for four terms, influenced Mr. Quigley to emigrate to Amer- ica, which he did in the '40s. It was supposed that he would settle in Boston, but after a pro- longed sojourn in that city and in Albany, N. Y., he, through the influence of John Dunne, of Sum- mit County, Ohio, a cousin of Mrs. Quigley, was induced to reside in Ohio.
Arriving in Summit County in July, 1848, Mar- tin Quigley at onee purchased a tract of land in Springfield Township, and there the family took up their abode. Later he purchased the Landis Farm, one- half mile from Middlebury (now Akron); he also bought a farm in Copley Township, whichi
he leased, and finally bought residence property on High Street, Middlebury, which was the family homestead for nearly thirty years. At the time he came to Summit County, the manufacture of stoneware, now one of the chief industries, was comparatively unknown. Foreseeing that a sue- cess could be made of this industry, he began to study the stoneware business, and, in prospeeting, found a bed of good potter's elay, which he bought and began to operate. Soon lie was able to furnish the two small potteries in Middlebury with better elay, at lower rates, than they had hitherto secured. As they could not utilize lis entire produet, he looked abroad for a market, and was the first man to ship this elay out of the state. He sent it first by canal, and later by rail- road, to Cleveland, thenee by boats to Mieliigan, Wisconsin and other neighboring states.
After some time he purchased the pottery works at Middlebury, and at once increased the business. Prior to that, clay had been ground in the old- fashioned horse-power mill; but wishing to secure better facilities, he bought a twenty-horse-power engine in Cleveland and commenced to grind the elay by steam. In 1862 his eldest living sons, Thomas and William, entered the firm, and later Hugh became one of the partners. Under the firm name of Quigley Bros., they increased the bus- iness until they had warehouses with a capacity of nearly three million gallons of ware, and as early as the Centennial year an annual business of over $150,000. They shipped their products by rail and water throughout the entire country. Not only did they continue the business projected by their father, but they also exerted themselves in a wholesale way, dealing in the wares manufact- ured by others who engaged in the enterprise.
In his old age Martin Quigley was surrounded by all the comforts he had accumulated through his business sagacity and energy. His declining years were passed in retirement from the heavier cares of life, but he continued to maintain an act- ive interest in business affairs until his demise, in 1878. It was his privilege to witness the growth of the stoneware business from its beginning until it attained a prominent rank among the leading industries of the state. He passed from earthi at
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his home in Akron, October 8, 1878, at the age of seventy-three years. His record was that of an honorable and progressive business man, and he left to posterity the heritage of an upright Chris- tian life, devoted to the welfare of his family, his adopted country and his friends.
The four surviving sons of Martin Quigley were Thomas, William, Hugh and Patrick. The eldest died in childhood. William was united in mar- riage, in November, 1864, with Miss Theresa, eld- est daughter of John Smith, a wealthy resident and a prominent Catholic and citizen of Cleveland. "Tom," the oldest son, married Miss Lucy Tem- pleman, of York, Pa., in 1881, and died in 1893. Hugh was married, May 2, 1876, to Miss Helena, eldest daughter of Peter Daly, also a prominent citizen of Cleveland.
The youngest son, the subject of this historical sketch, Patrick Francis de Sales Quigley, from childhood displayed great intellectual capacity, and at a very early age was sent to college at Clove- land, Ohio. There, in a period of twelve years, he completed the full curriculum of studies, in- cluding a four-years course in theology, and was ordained to the priesthood by Rt .- Rev. Amadeus Rappe, the first Bishop of Cleveland. The Bishop, recognizing his superior talents, urged him to go to Rome, that he might profit by the higher stud- ies there. Up to that time the Diocese of Cleve- land had never had a student at Romc, and, in those comparatively early days and poor times, liad no fund to defray the expenses incident to sending students there. But the father of the young priest volunteered to defray the expenses of an additional course of studies for his son at Romc, and he started for that city in September, 1869, the first from the Diocese of Cleveland to go to study in the Eternal City. For three years he attended the lectures in philosophy, theology, canon law, ecclesiastical history, ctc., at the re- nowned Collegio Romano, or the Gregorian Univer- sity, which conferred upon him the titles of Bacli- elor, Lieentiate and Doctorate in Theology. This was in the year 1872, and, excepting Dr. Mc- Closkey, afterwards Cardinal McCloskey, of New York, Dr. Quigley was the first American priest
upon whom those titles were conferred by the Gregorian University.
Upon returning to Ohio in 1872 hc was sent as pastor to a German congregation, St. Mary's, at Rockport, where he remained one year, when hc was appointed Professor at the Theological Semi- nary in Cleveland. For more than twelve years he continued there as Lecturer in Theology, Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Sacred Eloquence and Sacred Scripture. In 1876, during the absence of Bishop Gilmour, he was placed in charge of the Diocese of Cleveland for a period of three montlis. While at thic seminary in Cleveland he initiated and took a leading part in organizing the mnove- ment among the Catholic clergy there to bring suit in the civil courts to exempt Catholic schools from the general taxes levied by the state law. The suit finally terminated in exempting all Catholic schools from the general taxes, which, before that time, they had been paying.
In November, 1885, Dr. Quigley was ordered to Toledo, as pastor of St. Francis de Sales congrega- tion. This spacious church, which is located at the intersection of Superior and Cherry Strects, is the "Mother Church" of Toledo, and has long been regarded as one of the finest Catholic congre- gations in Ohio. The parish was founded by Fa- thier Rappe (later the first Bishop of Cleveland) in 1841. Archbishop Henni and Bishop Machebeuf, Bishop De Goesbriand (now of Burlington, Vt.), Father Folcy, Fatlier A. Campion, Father M. O'Conor, Father Robert Sidley, Rt .- Rev. Monsig- nor Boff and Father James O'Reiley were also pas- tors of this church.
When Dr. Quigley took charge, in 1885, the parish numbered about three hundred families. The membership has more than doubled since, so that now (1895) there are upwards of three thou- sand souls in the parish. The present churchi edi- fice was erected in 1870 and has a seating capacity of fourteen hundred adults. It was designed by Kieley, of New York, and has one of the most beautiful interiors in Ohio. The acoustic proper- ties are excellent, and the service has long been noted for the excellence of its music.
The congregation is not only numerous, but strong and well organized, When Dr. Quigley
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took charge there was a church debt of more than $30,000. In four years he greeted the assembled congregation with the announcement that all cur- rent expenses had been met, and the last dollar of the mortgage debt paid.
A very pronounced feature in the history of St. Francis de Sales Parish, as well as in the record of the subject of tins sketch, is the parochial-school education. Early in the '40s Bishop Rappe opened a parochial school near St. Francis de Sales Church, and it has been kept open ever since. The first teacher was Professor Whiteford, a learned French gentleman, who was the pioneer in the pedagogics of parochial-school education in Toledo. In 1854 the Ursuline Nuns took charge of Toledo's first parochial school, and have continued to teach there uninterruptedly ever since. In 1886 Dr. Quigley opened a correspondence with the Brothers of the Christian Schools in New York, with a view to securing a little band of Brothers to teach the boys of St. Francis de Sales Parochial Schools. His efforts in this direction resulted, after four years, in securing a promise from Rev. Brother Patrick, the American Superior of this teaching order, to send some Brothers for the school year beginning in September, 1891. In July of that year Brother Clementian, the Assistant Brother General of the order, came from Paris, France, to Toledo on a tour of inspection, and, after a day's investigation, announced his conclusion, saying: "Doctor, I am at your service." Dr. Quigley expressed his fer- vent thanks and promptly said: "I shall be happy, indeed, to exercise the authority you so graciously confer upon me. Send me the best teacher you have in America for at least a few years, and at least one other good teacher to assist him. Also, promise me that from time to time, as occasion re- quires, you will send us more teachers."
The Assistant Brother General could not but express his astonishment at the great favor do- manded; but he consented, and the usual contracts were mutually signed. In the month of August no less a personage than Rev. Brother Alexander, for years the Director of the celebrated De la Salle Institute, at the park, New York City, was ordered to Toledo to take charge of St. Francis de Sales Parochial Schools. Only the perfect discipline of
religion and the heroic spirit of self-sacrifice and enthusiastic devotion to the cause of Christian education could bring a celebrated President of a six hundred thousand dollar marble palace in New York, joyous and happy, to the humble sphere of a parish school in Toledo. They took charge of the schools in September, 1891. Two other Broth- ers assist in teaching the larger boys, while the smaller boys and all the girls of the school are taught by eight Ursulines. The Brothers at St. Francis de Sales are the first band of Christian Brothers to teach in the state of Ohio. The num- ber of pupils in attendance is five hundred. In addition to these teachers, an accomplished musi- cian, an Ursuline from the neighboring Ursuline Convent, regularly gives lessons to the girls in vocal and instrumental music, while Professor Poulin, of Toledo, does the same several hours a week for the more advanced boys, some of whom are taught to play the piano, the violin and the mandolin.
The schools are regularly graded, and the studies for the most advanced pupils comprise all the branches of an academic course of studies, among them grammar, rhetoric, composition and English literature; mathematics, arithmetic, algebra and geometry; history, sacred and profane; bookkeep- ing, typewriting and stenography; and there is also a class in Latin. A class in Greek is soon to be opened.
Public examinations and exhibitions are con- ducted annually in the largest theatre of the city. The efficiency of the teachers, both that of the Ursulines and that of the Brothers, as well as the standard of education and the proficiency of large numbers of pupils, are sources of joy to thou- sands in Toledo, The Brothers, as teachers, have few, if any, rivals, and certainly no superiors. Many facts attest the excellence of the work done in these schools. Girls have gone from the par- ochial schoolrooms upon completing their studies there under the Ursulines and successfully passed examinations before the Public School Board as applicants for teachers' certificates. The class work of these schools was sent to the school exhibit of the Columbian Exhibition, at Chicago, and awarded four diplomas of honor, with medals, the highest
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awards made to any school. St. Francis de Sales schools were the only schools in the great state of Ohio that received so inany of the highest awards. So far as announced, the public schools of Toledo received no diplomas of honor.
The old school buildings are now about to give way to something more in keeping with the great cause of education and the rapid increase of To- ledo. In 1893 a big school building was projected and work begun on it in October of that year. The church property comprises the entire block of land bounded by Cherry, Superior, Orange and Eagle Streets. The lotis 400x150 fect. While the church is located on the northern line of the grounds, the new school is being built at the soutli- ern line, leaving twenty thousand feet of ground between church and school for playgrounds. The big school is one hundred and forty-four feet long and one hundred and four feet wide, and is to be five stories high. The plans show it to have three acres of floors. The style is Romanesque. The work progresses slowly. It required an entire year to finish the foundation and the first story, or tlie walls up to the water table. The foundation was sunk to a point forty feet below the grade line, and rises to a height of thirteen fect above the street level. The outer walls, furnished by the Syenite Granite Company of St. Louis, arc of red Missouri granite, perhaps the most beautiful and perfect of all building material. The blocks of granite are all in courses two feet high, from two to twelve feet long, rock-faced, and many of them thirty-six inches thick. Already the grand pro- portions of the structure appear, bold and magnif- icent, while the warm rosebud color of the granite is beautiful indeed. This institution, wlien fin- ished, may well be regarded as an honor and an ornament to any city or state in the Union. Work was suspended during the past winter, but will be resumed in the near future.
Dr. Quigley has made a name as a fine speaker and a powerful orator. He has preached much in English; also in Italiau, French and German, as oc- casion required. He has been in great demand as a pulpit orator, and has often been called upon for lectures and otlier public addresses. The congre- gations of cathedrals and other prominent churches
between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, and even in the far-away Orient, have listened to luis eloquence. He is said to have been the first American priest known to have preached the Gospel in China.
Our subject has made a specialty of the study of canon law and Christian education. Many Catholic periodicals, including the "Civilta Cattolica," of Rome, and the "American Catholic Quarterly Re- view," have spoken of his work on these lines in terms of high praise. In the year 1878 he pub- lished "Points in Canon Law," a series of essays on recondite subjects in that science. In the year 1883 he was invited to Pittsburg by the civil courts there as an expert in canon law to instruct the judges in the case of Shechian versus Tuigg, a case involving the Church teaching on the quali- fications of pastors and on the relations of Bishops and priests. The Doctor was on the stand giving evidence for many days, and his views finally pre- vailed in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Bishop Tuigg, in the same year, published a book, "Compendium of Civil and Canon Law," of seven hundred and fifty-six pages, containing the record in the case, including all the evidence on canon- law points.
The Bishop of Albany, in 1885, invited Dr. Quigley to Albany to conduct a highly important case in canon law in the ecclesiastical courts there. With his distinguished friend and cousin, Ex- Chief Justice Dunne, be managed that case, and later, at the special request of Cardinal Simeoni, published in Latin a book of two hundred and seventy-four pages, "Causa Matrimonialis, Nolan," setting forth the entire case as tried.
In the years of 1886, 1887 and 1888, Dr. Quig- ley conducted the celebrated case of Gilmour versus the Toledo Sisters of Charity, a case brought by Rt .- Rev. R. Gilmour, the Bishop of Cleveland, against the Gray Nuns in ecclesiastical courts, to determine as to tlie property rights of the Bishop and the Sisters in the matter of property of St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum and St. Vincent's Hos- pital, in Cherry Street, Toledo, Ohio. The prop- erty included twelve acres of ground in the city and the buildings crected thereon at a cost of more than $100,000. The case was adjudicated by
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Cardinal Gibbons in August, 1888, who acted as Delegate Apostolic in the matter, and held his most high court at Toledo, hearing the case for over a week. Each side spoke four days, the Bishop pleading for the Diocese of Cleveland, and Dr. Quigley for the Gray Nuns. This was the first and, thus far, the only time a Papal Court was held in Toledo. The final judgment sustained all the claims of the Sisters, and rejected all the claims of the Bishop. In preparing the case Dr. Quigley was assisted by Judge Dunne. They published a Latin book on the case, comprising two hundred and sixty-five pages, and entitled: "Titulus Proprietarius Orphanotrophii Toletani, Sti. Vincentii."
In the year 1890 Dr. Quigley resisted the Ohio Compulsory Education Law, claiming that it was unconstitutional. He was thereupon indicted, ar- rested, imprisoned and prosecuted. The case came up for trial in the Common Pleas Court, was there tried, and thence appealed to the District Court, where it was also tried, and from there appealed to the Supreme Court of Ohio, and there likewise passed upon. The Doctor has published a book on the case, comprising xxviii and five hundred and ninety-eight pages. It includes an introduc- tory, an analytical table of contents, a history of the trial, the arguments of the attorneys on both sides, the opinions of the different courts, and a copious alphabetical index. It is the first presen- tation, as a law case, of the great school question, and must interest the reading public in general. Dr. Quigley's attorneys in the case were: Hon. E. F. Dunne, ex-Chief Justice; Hon. Frank H. Hurd, ex-Congressman; Hon. J. M. Ritchie, ex-Congress- man. The editor of the "Educational Review," in September, 1892, wrote of this case: "This To- ledo case was argued and decided on broad con- stitutional grounds," and "perhaps no decision more important to the future of all compulsory education legislation in this country has ever been rendered by an American court." The title of this work is: "Compulsory Education. Ohio versus Quigley."
Dr. Quigley is a man of extensive travels. He has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles on the American Continent, and has visited nearly
every nation of Europe, even Russia, Turkey and Greece. He has also traveled in Western and East- ern Asia. He is fond of ocean sailing, and recent- ly made one voyage of more than seventeen thou- sand miles on the Pacific, visiting Hawaii, Japan and China. He has occasionally lectured on his travels to large audiences, whom he interested with glimpses of the countries he had visited.
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