Speed, Thomas – Spencer, James Clark
Speed, Thomas
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 25, 1768, in Virginia. He moved to Kentucky in 1782, and participated in the war of 1812. In 1817 he was elected to congress, and in 1821, 1822 and 1840 he was a member of the Kentucky legislature. He died Feb. 20, 1842, at his home, near Bardstown, Ky.
Speed, Thomas
soldier, lawyer, genealogist, historian, was born Nov. 26, 1841, in Bardstown, Ky. He attended Centre and Hanover colleges. In 1862 he joined the union army as a private; was made first lieutenant and then adjutant of the regiment, twelfth Kentucky veteran infantry; and also served on brigade staff.
He was in the siege of Knoxville, Bean's Station, the various battles of the Atlanta campaign, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, and the taking of Fort Anderson, and Wilmington, N. C. After the war he studied law at the Michigan university, and has ever since practiced his profession in Louisville, Ky. He is the author of The Wilderness Road; The Political Club; History of the Union Regiments of Kentucky; The Speed Family; and other works.
Speer, Alfred
merchant, was born Nov. 2, 1823, near Belleville, N. J. He is president of the Speer New Jersey Wine company of Passaic, N. J. He was the first mayor of his village; and was an enrolling officer during the civil war. He was also the editor and owner of the first newspaper published in Passaic in 1870; and is the editor and owner of the Weekly Item of that city, which he has published for over a quarter of a century. He has been a director of the People's bank since its existence; and still takes a prominent part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Speer, David R
lawyer, politician, was born June 26, 1849, in Greenville, S.
C. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar, which profession he still practices in the place of his nativity. He has written extensively for the periodical press; and takes an active part in public affairs.
Speer, Emory
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 3, 1848, in Culloden, Ga. In 1873 he was appointed solicitor-general for the western judicial circuit of Georgia, and held the office three years. He was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses; and in 1885 was appointed United States district judge for the southern district of Georgia.
Speer, John
journalist, state senator, was born Dec. 27, 1817, in Kittanning, Pa.
In 1863 until 1871 he conducted the Kansas City Tribune; in 1864 was a member of the state senate; and from 1862-66 was United States collector of Kansas.
Speer, Ocie
lawyer, author, was born April 1, 1869, in Tarrant county, Texas. He was admitted to the bar in 1889; and practices in Bowie, Texas; was elected county attorney in 1890; and is the author of a treatise entitled The Law of Married Women.
Speer, Robert Milton
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1838, in Cassville, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a democrat.
Speer, William
missionary, author, was born April 24, 1822, in New Alexandria, Pa. He is a presbyterian missionary in China; and the author of China and the United States; The Great Revival of 1800; and God's Rule for Christian Giving.
Speight, Jesse
state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 22, 1795, in Greene county, N. C.
In 1822 he was a member of the house of commons of North Carolina; and in 1823 was a member of the state senate, where he continued until 1827, officiating several years as speaker. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1829 to 1837. He moved to Mississippi; and was elected to the legislature there, and made speaker. From 1845 to 1847 he was a senator in congress from his adopted state. He died May 1, 1847, in Columbus, Miss.
Spellmeyer, Henry
clergyman, was born Nov. 25, 1847, in Newark, N. J.
He received his education in the New York university and the Union Theological seminary, and since 1869 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. In 1896 he was a member of the general conference. He has been a trustee of the Drew Theological seminary of Madison, N. J.; a trustee of the Syracuse university, and of the Hackettstown Collegiate institute. In 1896 he was elected a member of the book committee of the methodist episcopal church for four years.
Spence, John Fletcher
educator, college president, was born Feb. 3, 1828, in Greenfield, Ohio. In 1853 he graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university, and the same year joined the Cincinnati conference of the methodist episcopal church. In 1862 he entered the union army chaplain, and served till the close of the war, when he settled in Knoxville, Tenn. For three years he was as president of the Knoxville Female college; and since 1875 has been chancellor of the Grant university. When Doctor Spence took charge of the university, the property was in imminent danger of being sold for debt. He has secured a liberal endowment and a largely increased patronage; in 1889 brought about the annexation of Chattanooga university; and the institution is now one of the most prosperous universities in the south.
Spence, John Selby
congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 29, 1788, near Snow Hill, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1823 to 1825, and from 1831 to 1833; and was United States senator from 1837 to 1840. He died Oct. 29, 1840, near Berlin, Md.
Spence, Thomas Adam
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1810, in Accomac county, Va. He was a presidential elector in 1840; and was elected a representative in congress from Maryland from 1843 to 1845. He died Nov. 10, 1877, in Washington, D. C.
Spence, William Wallace
financier, philanthropist, was born in 1815 in Scotland. He has been a finance commissioner of the city of Baltimore, N. Y. In 1890 he presented the city of Baltimore a $50,000 statue of Sir William Wallace, from whom he descends, and the monument was placed on a site in Druid Hill park.
Spencer, Ambrose
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 13, 1765, in Salisbury, Conn. He settled in Hudson, N. Y.; and was elected to the assembly in 1793; and in 1795 to the state senate, serving until 1798, when he was re-elected for four years. In 1804 he became a justice of the supreme court of New York. He died March 13, 1848, in Lyons, N. Y.
Spencer, Mrs. Bella Zilfa
author, was born March 1, 1843, in England.
She was the author of Ora, the Lost Wife; Tried and True; and Surface and Depth.
She died Aug. 1, 1867, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
SPENCER, MRS. CORNELIA [PHIL- LIPS], author, was born March 20, 1825, in Harlem, N. Y. She is a North Carolina writer who published The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina; and History of North Carolina.
Spencer, Francis Elias
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born April 25, 1834, in Ticonderoga, N. Y. In 1861 he was elected district attorney of Santa Clara county, Cal., which office he filled until 1866. In 1871 he was elected to the lower branch of the legislature as a republican. In 1879 he was elevated to the bench of the superior court of Santa Clara county.
Spencer, George Eliphaz
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Nov. 1, 1836, in Jefferson county, N.
Y. He was secretary of the Iowa senate in 1858. He entered the army as a captain in 1862; and was brevetted a brigadier-general for gallantry in the field. He settled in Alabama; and in 1867 was appointed a register in bankruptcy for the fourth district of Alabama. In 1868 he was elected a senator in congress from that state for the term ending in 1873; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1879.
Spencer, Hiram Ladd
journalist, author, was born in 1829 in Castleton, Vt.
He is the author of Summer Saunterings Away Down East; and a volume of poems.
Spencer, Ichabod Smith
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1798, in Rupert, Vt. He was a presbyterian clergyman prominent in Brooklyn for many years; and the author of A Pastor's Sketches; Sermons; Sacramental Discourses; and Evidences of Divine Revelation. He died Nov. 23, 1854, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Spencer, James Bradley
soldier, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born April 26, 1781, in Salisbury, Conn.
He served as a captain in the war of 1812.
He was in the legislature of New York in 1831 and 1832; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839. He subsequently held the various positions of elector, magistrate, county judge, collector and Indian agent. He died March 26, 1848, in Fort Covington, N. Y.
Spencer, James Clark
lawyer, jurist, was born May 29, 1826, in Fort Covington, N. Y. He received his education in the Fort Covington academy; and commenced the practice of law in 1850 in his native county.
Four years later he moved to Ogdensburg; in 1857 he was appointed United States district attorney for the northern district of New York; and after the expiration of his term moved to New York city, where he has since practiced his profession with success. He served with distinction as judge of the superior court of New York; in 1875 he was appointed a referee in the case of the receiver of the Erie Railway company; and in 1883 he was one of the commissioners for building a new aqueduct for the city of New York.