When Nydia Maria Hobbs was born on 28 November 1861, in Warsaw, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Henry James Hobbs, was 20 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Parsons, was 41. She married Luman Washington Quinn on 19 February 1879, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States in 1900. She died on 3 July 1922, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, United States.