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Charles Wight MacQuoid, broker, was born in New York city,
May 13, 1862, son of William Atkins and Elizabeth Deane (Hook) MacQuoid, and a
descendant of William MacQuoid who came from Devonshire, England, to Maine in
1640. After a public school education at Westfield, N. J., he became an office
boy in a New York insurance office in 1878, and a year later entered the banking
and brokerage office of William Heath & Co. In 1881, he became cashier of A.
H. Coomb's & Co., with which he was associated for fourteen years, and later
was a junior partner in the firm of John M. Shaw & Co. He became a member of
the New Your Stock exchange in 1889 and in the following year formed a brokerage
firm of his own, C. W. MacQuoid & Co. This firm was succeeded in 1919 by
MacQuoid & Coady, of which he was senior partner until his retirement in
1929. A resident of Roselle, N. J., he served as its mayor for nine years, in
three consecutive terms, and was one of the incorporators of the First National
Bank of Roselle. He was president of the board of St. Elizabeth's hospital, N.
J. and was largely instrumental in raising funds for the erection of a new
hospital building in 1927. He was a member of St. Luke's (P. E) Church at
Roselle, donating to it a building lot, the altar, an organ and a parish house.
He was a member of the Academy of Political Science and the Union League and
Downtown Athletic clubs of New York. Hobart college conferred upon him the
degree of D.C.L. MacQuoid had a magnetic personality, was an able public
speaker, a generous supporter of charitable activities, a friend of the needy
and distressed, and was beloved by all who knew him. He was married Oct. 19,
1893, to Mary Frances, daughter of Miller F. Moore, of Roselle, N. J., and they
had two children: Helen, wife of Clifford J. Morley, and Charles Wight MacQuoid.
He died in New York city, Sept. 25, 1931. |
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