Speer, William McMurtrie, 1865-1923

Dates:
Birth 1865
Death 1923-04-02

Biographical notes:

William M. Speer was born in Huntingdon PA in 1865 and died in Piermont NY in 1923. He graduated from Yale University in 1880 and from the Albany Law School in 1887. He was a journalist, public official, lawyer, inventor, businessman, publisher, and author.

From the description of William McMurtrie papers, 1880-1936. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 609578533

Links to collections

Comparison

This is only a preview comparison of Constellations. It will only exist until this window is closed.

  • Added or updated
  • Deleted or outdated

Information

Permalink:
SNAC ID:

Subjects:

  • Floods
  • Printing
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Actions and defenses
  • Agriculture
  • Annuities
  • Bankruptcy
  • Cinder blocks
  • Coal
  • Coal trade
  • Concrete houses
  • Concrete ships
  • Consumer cooperatives
  • Cooperation
  • Dairy laws
  • Eminent domain
  • Food supply
  • Gas-lighting
  • Government litigation
  • Hinges
  • Insurance
  • Insurance companies
  • Inventions
  • Journalism
  • Libel and slander
  • Local transit
  • Lumber trade
  • Machinery
  • Music publishing
  • Newspaper publishing
  • Old age pensions
  • Patents
  • Police corruption
  • Precast concrete construction
  • Real property
  • Representation in administrative proceedings
  • Sawmills
  • Shipping
  • Snow removal
  • Stencils and stencil cutting
  • Transportation
  • Trials (Libel)
  • World War, 1914-1918

Occupations:

  • Businessmen
  • Editors
  • Government attorneys
  • Inventors
  • Journalists
  • Lawyers
  • Music publishers
  • Promoters
  • Public officers

Places:

  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • Southern States (as recorded)
  • Ulster County (N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • New York (State) (as recorded)
  • Kingston (N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Pennsylvania--Johnstown (Cambria County) (as recorded)
  • Panama Canal (Panama) (as recorded)
  • Ashokan Reservoir (N.Y.) (as recorded)

SNAC Cooperative Logo

Social Networks and Archival Context

SNAC is a discovery service for persons, families, and organizations found within archival collections at cultural heritage institutions.

Sponsors

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Endowment for the Humanities

Hosts

University of Virginia Library
National Archives and Records Administration