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Elect a quinney biography

          Electa Quinney was a Mohican and member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

        1. Electa Quinney was a Mohican and member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.
        2. Electa Quinney was born around in Clinton, New York, into the Housatonic or Stockbridge tribe.
        3. Electa Quinney was a.
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        5. Quinney was elected to the Utah House of Representatives in and drafted the Utah Passenger Tramway Act in , regarded as one of the most important.

          6. Electa Quinney was a..

          Electa Quinney

          Electa Quinney

          Quinney around age 60

          Born

          Electa Quinney


          c.

          1798

          Clinton, New York

          Died1885

          Stockbridge, Wisconsin

          NationalityAmerican
          Other namesElecta W. Quinney, Electa W. Adams, Electa W.

          Candy

          Occupationteacher
          Years active1821–1844
          Known forfirst woman to teach in what would become Wisconsin

          Electa Quinney (Mahican name: Wuh-weh-wee-nee-meew Quan-au-kaunt) (c.

          1798 – 1885) was a Mohican and member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

          Richard Quinney is a sociologist who gained international renown as a radical criminologist.

          She founded one of the first schools in what would become Wisconsin and was the first woman to teach in a public school in the territory which would be Wisconsin.

          Early life

          Electa Quinney was born around 1798[note 1] in Clinton, New York, into the Housatonic or Stockbridge tribe.

          She was schooled at a Quaker school on Long Island, New York, where she spent four years, and in Clinton at the Clinton Female Seminary, which opened in 1814. Later sh