Person:Joshua Speed (1)
Joshua Fry Speed
b.14 Nov 1814 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
d.29 May 1882 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. James Speed, Esq.1812 - 1887
  2. Peachy Walker Speed1813 - 1891
  3. Joshua Fry Speed1814 - 1882
  4. William Pope Speed1816 - 1863
  5. Susan Fry Speed1817 - 1888
  6. Maj. Philip J Smith Speed1819 -
  7. John Smith Speed1821 - 1886
  8. Martha Bell Speed1822 - 1903
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Facts and Events
Name Joshua Fry Speed
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 14 Nov 1814 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United Statesat Farmington ; 5th son
Marriage Kentuckyto Frances Henning
Residence[1] Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United StatesCold Spring, on the road from the city to Farmington, his boyhood home
Death[2] 29 May 1882 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Jennings, Kathleen. Louisville's first families. (Louisville, Kentucky: Standard Printing Company, 1920)
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    ... It was to "Farmington" that Abraham Lincoln came before the Civil War to visit his friend, Joshua F. Speed, the fifth son of Judge Speed. The friendship, which was one of Lincoln's strongest attachments, was the result of a meeting in Springfield, Ill., where Joshua Speed spent seven years in his early manhood. He became one of Louisville's foremost business men, and his wife, Fanny Henning, of fine Virginia stock, shared her husband's popularity. ...

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Joshua Fry Speed, in Find A Grave.
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