Arthur H. Quinn

Arthur Hobson Quinn was born in Philadelphia on February 9, 1875. He had at least one brother. Quinn graduated the following year and was awarded membership of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. In 1897, Quinn began a year of study at the University of Munich in Germany . He received a doctorate from Penn in 1899. ==Academic career==

After graduating in 1894, Quinn began teaching at Penn as an instructor in mathematics. He stayed in the position until 1922. In 1939, he was appointed Welsh Professor of History and English. He was named professor emeritus in 1945 and retired nine years later in 1954. ==Group memberships==

Quinn was a member of the Franklin Inn Club, the Lenni-Lenape Club at Penn, the American Philosophical Society and Beta Theta Pi. ==Writing career==

As early as June 1894, Quinn was writing and performing poetry in front of groups: he recited a poem at his graduation ceremony that month and at a reunion the following February. In 1899, Quinn published a book of short stories called Pennsylvania Stories through the Penn Publishing Company. The work was illustrated by Frederick Foster Lincoln, a student at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1927, he wrote a two volume work titled History of the American Dramas. Similar views were offered by Hardin Craig, who wrote that "he has brought into the field of Poe biography excellent talent and sound scholarship and has devoted them to the purification of the record". In 1951, he edited a collection called The Literature of the American People. He was honored the following year by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia for the work. ==Personal life==

Quinn was married to Helen McKee. Their son James H. Quinn was principal of Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Their daughter Kathleen C. Quinn was director of drama at the University of Pennsylvania. Their other children include a son named Arthur H. Quinn Jr. and two more daughters. In 1960, Quinn lived in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. He died at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood on October 16, 1960. ==Awards and honors==

• Honorary Doctor of Letters from Saint Joseph's University (1918) ==References==