Speed family : miscellaneous papers, 1797-1977.

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Speed family : miscellaneous papers, 1797-1977.

Includes correspondence discussing travels, court cases, everyday life, education, and family matters. Included are William Howard Taft's 27 Feb. 1899 letter to Thomas Speed assuring him of the position of circuit court clerk, and two routine letters from Elizabeth Madox Roberts.

53 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7605331

The Filson Historical Society

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Speed, Lucy Gilmer Fry, 1788-1874

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Mayes, Daniel, d. 1844.

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Speed, James, 1812-1887

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James Speed was a friend and advisor to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln appointed him attorney general in 1864 and he supported Lincoln's moderate treatment of the southern states until Lincoln's death. He then became a radical republican who was a critic of Andrew Johnson. From the description of Speed, James 1812-1887 1863-1876 Papers. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49236177 Louisville lawyer, state legislator, politician, and U.S. attorney general. ...

Speed, Mary Ellen Shallcross, d. 1844.

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Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930

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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) was an American politician who served as U.S. President (1908-1912) and Chief Justitce of the Supreme Court (1921-1930). 1857 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 15th 1878 Graduated from Yale University 1880 Graduated from Cincinnati Law School ...

Speed, John, 1772-1840.

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Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk, 1812-1862

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Tennessee printer, editor, state legislator, U.S. congressman, and Confederate general killed at the Battle of Mill Springs, Ky. From the description of Letters, 1832-1855. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49479566 Confederate general. From the description of Signature, cut from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, D.C., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584722 ...

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1881-1941

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American poet and novelist. From the description of Papers of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 1929-1938. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689868 Author, poet, and novelist. From the description of Papers of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 1920-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449553 Springfield, Ky. poet and novelist. From the description of Elizabeth Madox Roberts : miscellaneous papers, 1921-1936. (Filson Historical Society, The). Wo...

Speed family.

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Prominent Ky. family. From the description of Speed family : miscellaneous papers, 1797-1977. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49322886 ...

Speed, Cora Coffin.

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Speed, James B. (James Breckinridge), 1844-1912.

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Fry, Speed S., b. 1817.

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Sackett, Olive Speed.

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Olive Speed Sackett was a member of the Speed family, a prominent Louisville, Ky. family and married to Frederic Mosley Sackett, U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1930-1933. From the description of Papers, 1927-1966. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49316956 ...

Keats, George, 1797-1841

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Speed, Joshua F. (Joshua Fry), 1814-1882

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From Kentucky, came to Springfield, Illinois where he became a good friend of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Papers, 1841-1853. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768305 Abraham Lincoln's most intimate friend from his days in Springfield. He was a partner in a general store, a farmer and real estate investor. His brother James Speed became Lincoln's second attorney general. His sister Eliza lived in Kentucky. From the descript...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Speed, William P., 1816-1863

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