[Quackenbush, James L.]

     Quackenbush, James L., Buffalo, was born in Brewerton, Onondaga county, N. Y., April 11, 1868. He was educated in the schools there and in the Syracuse High School. He graduated from the Buffalo Law School in 1890 at the head of his class, also receiving the Daniels prize for the best thesis on Constitutional Law. In March, 1891, he was admitted to the bar. In January, 1895, he became assistant district-attorney of Erie county, which office he resigned in January, 1896, to accept the position of city attorney of Buffalo. In 1895 he was appointed lecturer on the Law of Torts in the Buffalo Law School.