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The Georgia Negro Lawyer Dies After Long Career
John F. Quarles a well known colored lawyer with a Broway office died of pneumonia last Wednesday at thirty eight. Born a slave in Atlanta he studied at Westminster and in Sumner’s Washington office. He served as US Consul to Malaga and Port Mahone, married the French consul’s granddaughter, later backed Blaine, and practiced law in Flushing before returning to public life.
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John F. Quarles
Broway. Y
Atlanta Ga
Charles Sumner
Westminster College Pennsylvania
Spanish
Grant
Hayes
Malaga
Port Mahone
Marie Jacqueminot
Napoleon
Garfield
South
Blaine
Flushing
L. I
Secretary of the Treasury
Sherman
United States
Spanish Coast
Quarles
C. H. Ruge
Court of Appeals
Whittaker
West Point