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ABRAfl QUEREAU, merchant, born in Brooklyn, Oct 22, 1822, died at his home
on South Portland avenue in that city, Oct. 24, 1889. He belonged to an old Huguenot
family. In youth, he entered the employment of a shipping and commission house, and
through application and talent, rose to responsible positions and was sent by the firm
in 1850, to California. After a sojourn of five years there, he returned and was admit¬
ted to partnership, the firm taking the name of Mailler, Lord & Quereau. He con¬
tinued a member until his death, the house then being known as Mailler & Quereau.
For forty-five years, they were located on Stone street and then moved to Wall street.
The firm aided in founding The Old Dominion Steamship Line. Mr. Quereau was a
thorough, competent, shrewd and excellent man. He belonged to the Church of the
Messiah in Brooklyn, the Chamber of Commerce, the Produce and Maritime Exchanges,
The Society of Old Brooklynites and The Long Island Historical Society, was a life
member of The Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association, and in every relation
enjoyed the sincere respect of his associates.    Several children survived him.

JOHN WILLIAMS QUINCY, merchant, born in Boston, Mass., died in this city,
Jan. 21, 1883, in his sixty-ninth year. In the public schools of Boston, he fared so well
as to obtain the Franklin medal. Beginning life at the age of fifteen as clerk in a
hardware store, he devoted the remainder of his life to this trade and made therein
a special and creditable reputation. At the age of twenty-two, he engaged in the
hardware business in New York city, and in 1837 entered the partnership of Daven¬
port & Quincy. This house devoted itself wholly to American hardware, then little
dealt in, and by means of branch stores extended its trade to all the principal cities of
the North and South. A change of partners took place in 1847, and after 1852, the
firm were known as John W. Quincy & Co Energy, shrewdness and honorable
methods brought their natural rewards. Mr. Quincy married first a daughter of the
late Stephen Allen, and to them was born one daughter, who married E. Hayes Trow¬
bridge, jr., of New Haven, Conn. His second wife was a daughter of Charles Perkins,
and she survived her husband with a son and a daughter.

GEORGE WILLIAfl QUINTARD, manufacturer, and president and director of
corporations, is one of the vigorous sons of Connecticut, who, beginning life in this
metropolis at an early age, have risen to fortune and position by their own native
abilities. He was born in Stamford, April 22, 1822, and came from a family of French
descent, which had been resident in the town for several generations and played well
its part both in private life and public affairs, being distinguished for excellent ability
and character.    Isaac Quintard, father of George W., was a merchant of Stamford.

Having studied the text-books of the day at the public schools until the age of
fifteen, the subject of this biography then followed the example of other ambitious
youths in Connecticut, who at that time were looking to the rising city of New York as
the field in which they were most likely to find their fortunes. Coming to the city, the
young man found employment as a clerk in a grocery house, then prominent in the
trade, and from this firm learned the first principles of business management. Unlike
many other lads of his age, but in strict conformity with the rules by which alone a