Quentin Durward Corley

Quentin Durward Corley, Sr. (January 21, 1884 - April 22, 1980) was a Texas circuit judge.

He was born in Mexia, Texas on January 21, 1884, to Daniel Jacob Corley (1852–1948) and Mary Louise California (1851–1946).

In 1901 he graduated from the Oak Cliff high school.

On September 18, 1905, in Utica, New York he was in a railroad accident and lost both hands and one arm and shoulder.

[1] Within two years he invented and patented an artificial limb.

Judge Corley in 1916, driving his automobile using a prosthesis of his own invention.
Quentin Corley plowing in the 1910s