Bio: Quaw, David L. (1881) 
Contact: crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Quaw, Burbank, Kellogs, Dawes, Holden, McGibney, Hendrick

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 566

DAVID L. QUAW, Wausau, was born in West Almond, Allegany Co., N. Y., Dec. 13, 1836, and lived there until June 1, 1856, when he came to Friendship, Adams Co., Wis., and, in partnership with Willard Burbank, built a grist mill. In 1859, he went to Mansion, Juneau Co., and read law, staying there until April 20, 1861, when, with Gen. J. A. Kellogs, and Congressman Dawes, of Ohio, he raised Co. K, 6th Wis. V. I. At the organization of the company he was elected second lieutenant but relinquished the office to Mr. Holden, a drilled soldier, and took the place of first sergeant. A month later he was elected second lieutenant and soon after appointed first lieutenant, by brevet, of the Signal Service, Regular Army, but declined it, and two months after organization he was appointed first lieutenant, and five months later he was detailed to build bridges for the Army of the Potomac. He was appointed captain in June, 1862, and served with the company in thirteen battles. At the battle of Bull Run July 29, 1862, he was wounded in the left side by a shell explosion, and after examination by the surgeon general of the Army he was given indefinite leave of absence, and in October he resigned and was appointed in the recruiting service of Wisconsin as Deputy United States Marshal, and continued in that service until the close of the war, with headquarters at La Crosse. From 1865 to 1867 he was in the western part of New York, settling business affairs. He then returned to Friendship, Adams Co., and was elected Sheriff of that county, serving two years, and took the census of Adams County, in 1870. In 1871, he was appointed United States Receiver of Public Moneys for the Wausau Land District, and served until March, 1880, having resigned the previous January. Since 1872, he has been engaged in lumber business. Mr. Quaw is a son of Henry and Jane (McGibeny) Quaw; his father died in 1864 and his mother resides in Wausau, in good health, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Mr, Quaw was married in Friendship, Adams Co., Wis., in April, 1864, to Lydia E. Hendrick, who was born in Fulton, N. Y. They have three children — Clayton D., William and Dick.