He married Elizabeth Caldwell, b. Sept. 20, 1802 and had the following children.
Nancy Jane McQuaid b. Aug. 15, 1822
James Graham b. Dec. 26 1824
Mary Catherine b. Feb 3, 1827
Samuel Caldwell b. July 4, 1829
Robert Harvey b. July 14, 1834
all were born in Pennsylvania.
Samuel C. McQuade, Duluth pioneer 1829 - 1896
Sam McQuade was, to say the least, a remarkable man. His achievements are outlined below, but his link to my Jones family is through his wife Abbie Hayward, the sister of my great grandmother. The real link is that in the 1870's when my great grandmother got fed up with grubbing for gold with her husband in Montana, it was Sam who took her and her two youngest in.
This is all the more remarkable in that he already had his mother and father in law living with him, not to mention his own wife and four children. It is no wonder that he spent a lot of time out in the woods exploring.
MARRIED
Samuel McQuade 1829-1896
Abigail Eliza Hayward 1834 - 1906
CHILDREN
Gertrude McQuade
Frederick McQuade
Robert McQuade
William McQuade
SAM McQUADE DIED
One of this city's oldest and best known citizens passes away.
His demise was unexpected.
Mr. McQuade was once Chief of Police and held other positions of trust.
Mr. McQuade retired about 9 o'clock according to his custom and was reading aloud when he suddenly dropped back and expired. Bedsides Mrs. McQuade, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Captain Flynn of this city and three sons, William, Fred and Robert. William and Fred live in Tower and Robert McQuade lives in Duluth. The news of Mr. McQuades's death was telegraphed to Tower last night.
Last November Mr. McQuade went South and spent three months in search of health. He was seriously ill on his return but apparently recovered. His death was a shock to the family.
Mr McQuade was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania in in 1829. In March 1854 he came to Duluth from Ontonagon, Michigan in search of copper deposits, and established a trading post at Endion. He said of those early experiences, "I came on snowshoes. This country belonged to the Indians then. The treaty of peace was not made until the following year. I had to have some excuse for staying so a party of us established a trading post. We called it Endion which means 'place of my home.'' In those days days the boundry line between the Chippewa and the Sioux countries was at the Kettle river between here and Saint Paul. A couple of years later Mr. McQuade married in Michigan and settled down in Duluth, being the third settler on this side of the bay.
When war broke out in August 1862, Mr. McQuade enlisted in Ypsilanti, Michigan and served until November 1864 as pincipal musician, when he was promoted to to a second lieutenant. He was honorably discharged in March, 1865 and returned to Duluth.
For several years he was a member of the sash door and blind firm of Patterson and McQuade and operated a mill across the canal at Park Point. He was elected Alderman and afterwards served a term as county commissioner. In 1878 he was elected sheriff and held the office until 1888. He was appointed Chief of Police by Mayor Davis in 1890 and served during the administration. Since then he has lived in retirement at the comfortable family residence at 331 West third street.
Mr. McQuade was a man of commanding presence. His hair slightly tinged with grey. He possessed the highest degree of the art of making and keeping friends and was very popular. He was a member of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of The Republic), of the Old Settler's association and was prominent in the Palestine Lodge of A.F. and A.M. and in the Duluth Commandery Knights Templers.
Your obituary of Samual C. McQuade indicates he served as Sheriff the five terms from 1878 - 1888. He actually served from 1876 - 1886. My G-Grandfather Henry Truelsen was elected Sheriff in Nov 1886 and served one term from 1887-1889.
Regards, Rod Loyear
McQuade House
Driving north on Highway 61, between the McQuade and Ryan Roads, one sees a barricade where the Old North Shore crossed the present highway area. Beyond the barricade, an older two story frame home is seen. Few realize just how much "older" the house actually is. The present owners, the George Grubers, are aware that part of it has the distinction of being the oldest home in this area for it was built by Sam McQuade.
Sam McQuade was born in Pennsylvania and married in Michigan. 'When he died in his Duluth home at 331 W. Third St., at age 67 in 1896, he had assured his place in history. McQuade came to Superior from Ontonogan, Michigan to look for copper in 1852 He first arrived in Duluth on snowshoes in 1854 and is reported to be the third settler in Duluth. By 1855 he had a claim at Endion. and established a trading post there. The next year, W.W. Spaulding and D. Cash grubstaked (outfitted) five men, including McQuade to go about Duluth to make homesteads or pre-emption claims.
McQuade established a claim here at French River and first lived on it until 1858, when he apparently srent back to Michigan. The year before, 1857, McQuade, Cash, Spaulding, Carlton, Parry, Cowell, Kingsbury and Vose Palmer incorporated with $400,000 capital, the first mining company (copper), to be formed in northern Minnesota Territory.
McQuade served as a second lieutenant in the Grand Army of the Republic for three years during the Civil War. He was back in Duluth by 1870 and had entered into a partnership, with a Patterson in a sash and door business until 1875. The mill was on Park Point. He was one of the Organizers of the Old Settlers Association in 1886. McQuade was in turn, an alderman, a county commissioner., and the first county sheriff, (1878-1888). He was Duluth's police chief from 1890 to 1892.
About 1865, McQuade built a 16 x 20 two-room, story-anda half, log home with a hip roof on the French River claim. Today, it is the rear of the present building and it's still used for a kitchen and a bedroom. A summer kitchen with the original house has been removed by Vern Palms. We don't know, how long the family lived here. A son Robert, added the present front portion to the house about 1920. It consists of a living room and two upstairs bedrooms built by Frank Sheldon. The carpenter added the decorative eave-facing on the front of the house, called a banshee roost. Supposedly, the spirit would rest there instead of entering the house down the chimney, and therefore it was hoped that no one of the family would die within.
Eventually, the property changed hands several times, before Vern Palms bought the remaining four acres from one of McQuade's sons and the rest back from the state. He rented the house, which me adjacent to the Palm's farm, several years, and in June 1970, Palm sold the house to his last renters, the George Gruber family.
Interesting things were told about the house by Palms and the Grubers. McQuade had four children; three sons and one daughter. (A grandson lives in Duluth now.) Mrs. McQuade carried water for the family's needs from a shallow well 127 feet from the house. They hoped someday to dig a well nearby and saved toward the estimated cost which they felt would be considerable to reach the probable water level. Isn't it ironic that when Palms dug a well near the corner of the house, he reached water at only 27 feet. Billy McQuade fell into the first well and was saved from drowning by his mother.
Palms said that when Billy was still little, he planted the tree nearest the porch which today towers over the home. McQuade donated the corner acre nearest the barricade for a one room school. Billy married one of the teachers, also his, Myrtle Harrison. This school and another on the Mace property later consolidated and the children attended a new School 90 on the corner of Ryan and Old North Shore Roads The McQuade school was actually a little red building in use until 1916. Palms later bought back that acre of land.
A sawmill and camp was located on the property and the area now used by the freeway. Palms found five feet of legging chain made of inch metal and having foot-long links, as well as part of a capistan and a stump puller. Mrs. Gruber reports finding harness parts and an extensive dump. A test pit is also there. Any other remains of a roll-way, barn or other original buildings are gone.
Hand-hewed floor joists can be seen in the area excavated under the old portion of the house to level and provide for plumbing. Otherwise, the original structure of logs is hidden by exterior siding and remodeling over the years, Mrs. Gruber mentioned the problems of fitting storm windows and new doors in frames with odd dimensions, each different from another, with few truly vertical.
The Grubers are making the house more comfortable and convenient. They appreciate the history of the house but do not feel the condition of the house warrants restoration to preserve it for many years. They enjoy the property and the two children explore the premises, probably much the same as. the McQuade children once did.
CHILDREN OF SAM McQUADE
Top row, right to left - Bill, Fred, Robert, McQuade
Bottom row, right to left - Milo & Catherine Jones
Gertrude McQuade Flyn and Fred McQuade
Robert and Bill McQuade
There are six graves, on the left there are three large graves, and three little ones on right.
Going from the left there are: Gertrude McQuade Flyn bur. 5/12/28, Abbie E. McQuade (Sam's wife) bur. 7/25/06, Samuel C. McQuade bur.
7/23/96, then the children, Mary Flyn bur. 9/21/93, Maurice Flyn bur. 6/12/92, and Samuel D. McQuade - 8 yrs, son of Samuel C McQuade, burial date unknown as he had been moved.
According to the administrator at Forest Hill, the removal of the bodies was contracted out to a less than reputable lumberjack, and some families disinterred their own. As they were charged for each reinturnment, some families failed to report all the members they were moving. Thus it could be that the McQuades moved both Samuel D McQuade and his grandmother to the same plot and reported them as one. Their monument shown above is the most weathered and may have been moved from the old yard. At any rate the yard has no information on Betsy McQuade despite her have a monument there.
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