Quentin Durward Corley, Sr. (January 21, 1884 - April 22, 1980) was a Texas circuit judge.

Biography

He was born in

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on January 21, 1884, to Daniel Jacob Corley (1852–1948) and Mary Louise California (1851–1946). His parents were from Alabama, and moved to Texas in 1874. Quentin moved to

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in 1895. In 1901 he graduated from the Oak Cliff high school. On September 18, 1905, in

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he was in a

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accident and lost both hands and one arm and shoulder. Within two years he invented and patented an

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. He went on to study law in the offices of Muse & Allen in Dallas, and in 1907 passed the

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bar. In 1908 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace, and his service in that capacity was of such a character that in the campaign of 1912 he was elected a county judge. He died on April 22, 1980, in

Patents

*Improvements in and relating to artificial arms (1920)

Legacy

*Quentin D. Corley Academy

References

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