James Edward Quigley (October 15, 1854 – July 10, 1915) was a Canadian-born American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Chicago from 1903 to 1915.

[3] After graduating from St. Joseph's College in Buffalo in 1872, Quigley passed an entrance examination for the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

He then went to Europe to study at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and College of Propaganda[clarification needed] in Rome.

[4] While in Rome, Quigley was ordained a priest by Cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta for the Diocese of Buffalo on April 13, 1879.

The Association paid these men through the local saloon keepers, who would subtract fees from their pay for room, board and drinks, leaving them very little.

Quigley opened St. Bridget Church in Buffalo as a headquarters for the strikers, gave them strategic support, and acted as a mediator with the carriers.

While claiming to support the union movement, Quigley denounced socialism and gave his interpretation of why the Catholic Church opposed it.

In July 1903 he started planning a minor seminary, which would provide high school and some college course for teenagers looking to become priests.

[6] In 1910, Quigley approached Reverend Francis X. McCabe, president of DePaul University, about the lack of higher education opportunities for Catholic women in the archdiocese.

[15] Quigley had commissioned in 1905 the construction of the Bishops' Mausoleum in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.

[16] In June 1915, in declining health, Quigley traveled to Rochester, New York, to stay with his brother while receiving medical treatment.