Quincy, a city in Illinois, U.S., on the Mississippi, 160 m. above St. Louis; a handsome city, with a large trade and extensive factories; is a great railway centre.
Population (circa 1900) given as 31,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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