Alameda County Biographies

William B. Quigley, Jr.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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William B. Quigley, Jr., is the proprietor of a wholesale and retail liquor establishment at 
the corner of Tenth and Clay streets in Oakland and has conducted the same successfully for 
the past seven years. He is a native son of Alameda county, having been born in Oakland on the 
9th of June, 1880, of the marriage of W. B. and Isabelle Quigley. He acquired his education in 
the graded and high schools and following his graduation, in 1897, spent two months as a 
student in Heald's Business College. Subsequently he secured a position as credit man with 
Benjamin Curtay & Sons, a piano concern, remaining in their service until 1900, when he 
embarked in the retail liquor business in Oakland at the corner of Seventh and Magnolia 
streets. In 1907 he sold that establishment, having in January, 1906, opened a wholesale and 
retail liquor store at the corner of Tenth and Clay streets, the conduct of which has claimed 
his attention to the present time.
        On the 17th of March, 1902, in Oakland, Mr. Quigley was united in marriage to a Miss 
Kispert. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, while fraternally he is 
identified with the Knights of Pythias, the Native Sons, the Druids, the Loyal Order of Moose, 
the Eagles and the Masons, being a member of the local chapter of the last named organization. 
He is a popular and representative young citizen of Oakland and enjoys an extensive 
acquaintance in the city in which his entire life has been spent.
 
Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 138