Joshua Fry Speed

Birth Date

1814-11-14

Death Date

1882-05-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, real estate broker and surveyor. Kentucky native. Son of John Speed and Lucy Fry. Attended St. Joseph’s Academy in Bardstown, Kentucky. Married to Fanny Henning Speed. Merchant in Springfield, Illinois. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1848. President of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Railroad from 1853 to 1855. Partner in the real estate firm Henning & Speed in Louisville. Surveyor in Louisville in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 57. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 174. “Joshua Fry Speed” in ¬The Encyclopedia of Louisville, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 844. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 357. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965, Film # 7007127, Louisville, May 29, 1882, p. 230 (accessed via ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "Joshua Fry Speed (November 14, 1814- May 29, 1882)," Memorial #6940169, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6940169(accessed January 18, 2019).

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