Quintus Quincy Quigley

Colonel Quintus Quincy Quigley (July 17, 1828 – December 19, 1910) was an American lawyer from Kentucky who was the founder of the city of Paducah.

His house "Angles" was subsequently owned by US Vice President Alben W. Barkley and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

[1][2] He was educated at Cumberland College and studied law under Judge Crockett in Paducah, Kentucky, starting in 1848 and being admitted to the bar in 1850.

Quigley tried to extradite him to the Kingdom of Prussia but this was hotly contested and he was eventually released on a writ of habeas corpus.

This was handwritten but was transcribed and published in a limited edition in 2000 as The Life and Times of Quintus Quincy Quigley.

Paducah at this time was but a small town with perhaps five or six hundred population and mud holes, ravines and marshes all along Broadway to within half a square of the river.He and his wife had six children.