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Speece, Conrad – Speed, Thomas

Speece, Conrad

clergyman, author, poet, was born Nov. 7, 1776, in New London, Va. He was a noted baptist clergyman of Virginia; and the author of The Mountaineer; and a number of meritorious poems. He died Feb. 15, 1836, in Staunton, Va.

Speed, Frederick

soldier, jurist. was born Sept. 22, 1841, in Ithaca, N. Y.

He served as a private soldier during the war, and became lieutenant. In 1865 he settled in Vicksburg, Miss., and during 1869-70 was judge of the criminal court of Warren county.

Speed, James

lawyer, educator, síate senator, was born March 11, 1812, in Farmington, Ky. He settled in the practice of law at Louisville, Ky., in 1853; in 1847 was elected to the state legislature; and in 1861 was elected to the state senate. In 1864 he was appointed attorney general of the United States. In 1872 he became a professor in the Louisville Law school.

He died June 25, 1887, in Jefferson county, Ky.

Speed, John

soldier, jurist, was born May 17, 1772, in Virginia. He served with the volunteer forces in the service of the United States against the Indians in 1791; and was a judge of the quarter sessions court. In 1828 he wrote a series of articles upon the political topics of the day. He died March 30, 1840, in Farmington, Ky.

Speed, John

soldier, lawyer, was born in 1842 in Louisville, Ky. He served in the union army during the civil war in the ninth Kentucky cavalry, and was promoted assistant adjutant-general.

In 1865 he was made paymaster with the rank of major. He is now one of the most successful practitioners at the Louisville bar.

Speed, John Gilmer

journalist, author, was born in 1852 in Kentucky. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of Life of Keats.

Speed, John James

soldier, inventor, was born in 1803 in Mecklenburg county, Va. He was an efficient co-worker of Prof. Morse in introducing and perfecting magnetic telegraph apparatus, and was president of the Western Telegraph company in Detroit, and at Portland, Maine, established the independent line to Washington. He died in 1867 in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Speed, John James

physician, educator, was born Oct. 31, 1816, in Bardstown, Ky. In 1850 he moved to Louisville, Ky. In 1861 he was made postmaster, which position he filled for eight. years. In 1874 he was elected president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and was also professor in the Hospital College of Medicine.

Speed, John James

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 14, 1839, in Ithaca, N. Y. During 1873-74 he was a representative in the Michigan state legislature from Detroit. In 1881 he became judge of the third circuit court, and is now counselor of the city of Detroit.

Speed, John K

merchant, manufacturer, was born March 21, 1848, in Louisville, Ky. He helped to organize the board of trade of Memphis, and was its first president. He was also one of the originators of the Merchants' exchange, and was its first president.

Speed, Philip

soldier, was born April 12, 1819, in Farmington, Ky. In the latter part of the war period he was appointed collector of internal revenue. He was a model officer, giving entire satisfaction to the government. He died Nov. 1, 1882.

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.