John Henry McQuillen (1899 - 1954)

Born 1899 in Echo, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

Ancestors

Husband of Frieda Zenger — married 1926 (to 1926) in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin

Descendants

Died 1954 at about age 55 in Fort Snelling, Hennepin County, Minnesota

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• Y-Chromosome DNA Confirmed: McQuillen-19's direct paternal relationship to Douglass-235 is confirmed because: This yDNA test of Kittilson-1 and this yDNA test of Douglass-775 are a close match. 67/67 markers. The most recent common ancestor in the yDNA line of Kittilson-1 and the yDNA line of Douglass-775 is Douglass-235.

• Y-Chromosome DNA Confirmed: McQuillen-19's direct paternal relationship to Douglass-675 is confirmed because: This yDNA test of Kittilson-1 and this yDNA test of Douglass-798 are a close match. 67/67 markers. The most recent common ancestor in the yDNA line of Kittilson-1 and the yDNA line of Douglass-798 is Douglass-675.

Biography

John McQuillen was born in 1899 in Echo, Minnesota. He served in World War I in Panama. After the war, he lived briefly in Park Falls, Wisconsin, where he met his first wife, Ruth Haga. They were divorced in 1926, and he married secondly Frieda Zenger. In about 1930 John relocated to Medford, Wisconsin, where he first sold insurance, then operated the Lake Esadore Hi-View Resort. He married his third wife, Theresa Bauer, in Medford. In about 1940 John was selected Undersheriff of Taylor County, Wisconsin, and served in that office for many years. In 1948 he was elected a Justice of the Peace in Taylor County, a post which he held when he passed away in 1954. ^[1]

Sources

• Kevin Kittilson, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Kevin and others.
• Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, Birth Records, Book B, page 140, line 14.

1. ↑ Entered by Kevin Kittilson, Sep 10, 2012