Matthew Quay - Timeline

Timeline

• 1833: Born Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania; educ. Beaver Academy.
• 1850: He graduated at Jefferson College; then studied law under Judge Sterret.
• 1851-53: Mississippi.
• 1854: Admitted to Beaver County bar.
• 1855: Beaver County, prothonotary; marries Agnes Barclay.
• 1856: Beaver County, prothonotary.
• 1859: Beaver County, prothonotary.
• 1861: 10th Pa. Reserves (Lt., Lt.-Col.).
• 1862: Governor Andrew Curtin, private secretary.
• 1862: 134th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, commissioned, Col. (August)
• 1862: Leaves 134th Pennsylvania Regiment Volunteers (health) (7 December)
• 1862: Battle of Marye's Heights (13 December)
• 1864: Elected to Pa. state legislature.
• 1865-1867 : Pa. state legislature.
• 1869: Founds Beaver Radical
• 1873-78: Pa. state secretary.
• 1878-79: City of Philadelphia, Recorder. (resigned)
• 1879-82: Pa. state secretary. (named January; resigned October)
• 1886-87: Pa. state treasurer.
• 1887: Entered United States Senate.
• 1888: Republican National Committee, Chairman.
• 1892: Re-elected, U.S. Senate.
• 1898: Not re-elected; term expires 1899.
• 1901: U.S. Senate
• 1904; Death; buried in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

Quay County, New Mexico is named in his honor.

Matthew Quay appears on a 45p (£0.45) commemorative stamp from the Isle of Man Post Office, as part of a series honoring Manx-Americans.