Viewing Wilfred A. Quinlivan (1898-1938).

Wilfred A. Quinlivan (1898-1938).

Wilfred A. Quinlivan quit college to serve in the Navy during World War I. After discharge, he attended the St. Paul College of Law, graduating in 1924 at age twenty-six. For the next fourteen years, he practiced law and raised his family. He died suddenly in early February 1938. In a eulogy at memorial services of the Hennepin County Bar Association the following year, Harold J. Carroll summed his life:

"His interest in the practice of his profession was exceeded only by his devotion to his home and his family. He had few other interests; he needed none. To him the joy of living was in the doing of a hard day's work and in the spending of his leisure hours in the company of his loved ones at home. From home to office in the morning; from office to home at the close of the day. That was Bill's routine. He was a splendid example of simple and successful living as a lawyer and as a man."

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