Background
Quick, John Herbert was born on October 23, 1861 in near Steamboat Rock, Iowa, United States. Son of Martin and Margaret (Coleman) Quick.
Quick, John Herbert was born on October 23, 1861 in near Steamboat Rock, Iowa, United States. Son of Martin and Margaret (Coleman) Quick.
Reared on farm; attended country schools. Engaged in teaching, 1882-1890, becoming principal of ward school in Mason City, Iowa, and meantime studying law.
Admitted to Iowa bar, 1889. Engaged in practice at Sioux City, 1890-1909. Associate editor Louisiana Follette’s Weekly, Madison, Wisconsin, December 1908-July 1909.
Editor of Farm and Fireside, Springfield, O., 1909-1916.
Member Federal Farm Loan Bureau, Washington, terms 1916-1924 (resigned 1919). Was member and counsel for Citizens’ Committee in Sioux City, and in that capacity prosecuted boodlers, circa 1894.
Thrice nominated for mayor of Sioux City, and once elected, serving 1898-1900. Nominee for supreme judge, 1902.
Author: Aladdin & Company, 1904.
Double Trouble, 1905. The Broken Lance, 1907. American Inland Waterways, 1909.
Virginia of the Air Lanes, 1909.
Yellowstone Nights, 1911. On Board the Good Ship Earth, 1913.
The Brown Mouse, 1915. From War to Peace, 1919.
The Fairview Idea, 1919.
Vandemarks Folly, 1922. The Hawkeye, 1923. Chairman commission in charge of affairs in Far East, American Red Cross (rank of colonel), 1920. Home: Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
Member Federal Farm Loan Bureau, Washington, terms 1916-1924 (resigned 1919).
Married Ella Doctorate. Corey, April.