His wife, Mattie, was involved in the Women's Temperance Movement, and is reputed to haunt the house.

After witnessing the symbolic completion of the Central Pacific at Promontory, Utah, Quinn settled in Evanston in 1870.

Quinn and a partner bought out the local Sisson and Wallace operation in 1872 for $35,000 and went on to buy property around Evanston.

Mattie led the local temperance movement and was a board member of the University of Wyoming.

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