Eugene Kramer Quigg, had sixteen months of service with the American Red Cross in France, and immediately on his return to his old home town of Richmond resumed touch with civilian business affairs, and is general manager, stockholder and director in the Richmond Baking Company.
He was born at Richmond (in 1896) and is a son of William H. and Laura (Kramer) Quigg. The Richmond Baking Company was established by his father in 1902, and is now the largest wholesale biscuit and cracker bakery in eastern Indiana. The company is incorporated for $75,000 and has a hundred employees. William H. Quigg died November 9, 1918.
The Quigg family is of English Quaker stock and has been in America since 1740. They first settled in South Carolina, and came to the vicinity of Richmond in 1850. Eugene K. Quigg is one of the eighth generation of the family in this country.
He was educated at Richmond, graduating from the high school in 1914. The following two years he spent in Earlham College, specializing in economics, and in 1916 entered the University of Wisconsin.
He left the university in June, 1917, as a volunteer under the auspices of the Friends Service Committee. On reaching France he was assigned to the American Red Cross Relief Department.
He was on duty for sixteen months at hospitals and other points close to the front, and had the experience of several German bombardments.
One of his special duties was to establish a factory for the manufacture of certain hospital supplies. He also had charge of the administration of a hospital for two months.
Mr. Quigg is an independent in politics, is a member of the Rotary Club, the Commercial Club and the Travelers Protective Association and is active in the Friends Church. He returned to America on December 9, 1918, on the French Liner, Chicago.
(Mr. Eugene K. Quigg died while hospitalized for a surgery in Florida; March, 1950 and is buried at Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Indiana.)
Source for this sketch; Indiana and Indianans; By Jacob Piatt Dunn; Volume 3; 1919
He was born at Richmond (in 1896) and is a son of William H. and Laura (Kramer) Quigg. The Richmond Baking Company was established by his father in 1902, and is now the largest wholesale biscuit and cracker bakery in eastern Indiana. The company is incorporated for $75,000 and has a hundred employees. William H. Quigg died November 9, 1918.
The Quigg family is of English Quaker stock and has been in America since 1740. They first settled in South Carolina, and came to the vicinity of Richmond in 1850. Eugene K. Quigg is one of the eighth generation of the family in this country.
He was educated at Richmond, graduating from the high school in 1914. The following two years he spent in Earlham College, specializing in economics, and in 1916 entered the University of Wisconsin.
He left the university in June, 1917, as a volunteer under the auspices of the Friends Service Committee. On reaching France he was assigned to the American Red Cross Relief Department.
He was on duty for sixteen months at hospitals and other points close to the front, and had the experience of several German bombardments.
One of his special duties was to establish a factory for the manufacture of certain hospital supplies. He also had charge of the administration of a hospital for two months.
Mr. Quigg is an independent in politics, is a member of the Rotary Club, the Commercial Club and the Travelers Protective Association and is active in the Friends Church. He returned to America on December 9, 1918, on the French Liner, Chicago.
(Mr. Eugene K. Quigg died while hospitalized for a surgery in Florida; March, 1950 and is buried at Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Indiana.)
Source for this sketch; Indiana and Indianans; By Jacob Piatt Dunn; Volume 3; 1919
Eugene Kramer Quigg, had sixteen months of service with the American Red Cross in France, and immediately on his return to his old home town of Richmond resumed touch with civilian business affairs, and is general manager, stockholder and director in the Richmond Baking Company.
He was born at Richmond (in 1896) and is a son of William H. and Laura (Kramer) Quigg. The Richmond Baking Company was established by his father in 1902, and is now the largest wholesale biscuit and cracker bakery in eastern Indiana. The company is incorporated for $75,000 and has a hundred employees. William H. Quigg died November 9, 1918.
The Quigg family is of English Quaker stock and has been in America since 1740. They first settled in South Carolina, and came to the vicinity of Richmond in 1850. Eugene K. Quigg is one of the eighth generation of the family in this country.
He was educated at Richmond, graduating from the high school in 1914. The following two years he spent in Earlham College, specializing in economics, and in 1916 entered the University of Wisconsin.
He left the university in June, 1917, as a volunteer under the auspices of the Friends Service Committee. On reaching France he was assigned to the American Red Cross Relief Department.
He was on duty for sixteen months at hospitals and other points close to the front, and had the experience of several German bombardments.
One of his special duties was to establish a factory for the manufacture of certain hospital supplies. He also had charge of the administration of a hospital for two months.
Mr. Quigg is an independent in politics, is a member of the Rotary Club, the Commercial Club and the Travelers Protective Association and is active in the Friends Church. He returned to America on December 9, 1918, on the French Liner, Chicago.
(Mr. Eugene K. Quigg died while hospitalized for a surgery in Florida; March, 1950 and is buried at Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Indiana.)
Source for this sketch; Indiana and Indianans; By Jacob Piatt Dunn; Volume 3; 1919
He was born at Richmond (in 1896) and is a son of William H. and Laura (Kramer) Quigg. The Richmond Baking Company was established by his father in 1902, and is now the largest wholesale biscuit and cracker bakery in eastern Indiana. The company is incorporated for $75,000 and has a hundred employees. William H. Quigg died November 9, 1918.
The Quigg family is of English Quaker stock and has been in America since 1740. They first settled in South Carolina, and came to the vicinity of Richmond in 1850. Eugene K. Quigg is one of the eighth generation of the family in this country.
He was educated at Richmond, graduating from the high school in 1914. The following two years he spent in Earlham College, specializing in economics, and in 1916 entered the University of Wisconsin.
He left the university in June, 1917, as a volunteer under the auspices of the Friends Service Committee. On reaching France he was assigned to the American Red Cross Relief Department.
He was on duty for sixteen months at hospitals and other points close to the front, and had the experience of several German bombardments.
One of his special duties was to establish a factory for the manufacture of certain hospital supplies. He also had charge of the administration of a hospital for two months.
Mr. Quigg is an independent in politics, is a member of the Rotary Club, the Commercial Club and the Travelers Protective Association and is active in the Friends Church. He returned to America on December 9, 1918, on the French Liner, Chicago.
(Mr. Eugene K. Quigg died while hospitalized for a surgery in Florida; March, 1950 and is buried at Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Indiana.)
Source for this sketch; Indiana and Indianans; By Jacob Piatt Dunn; Volume 3; 1919
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The Quigg family plot is located north of the Earlham Mausoleum, on the west side of the cemetery.
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