William S. Speer : 無料・フリー素材/写真
William S. Speer / jajacks62
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| 説明 | Co. A, 78th OH. InfantryHistory of Johnson County, Kansas, by Ed. Blair, Standard Publishing Company, Lawrence, Kansas, 1915. W. S. Speer, of Olathe, has been a prominent factor in the affairs of Johnson county for forty-seven years. He was born at Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, April 11, 1839, and is a son of A. S. and Mary (McKinney) Speer, natives of Scotland. The grandfather was a lieutenant in the War of 1812 and an early settler in Guernsey county, Ohio. A. S. Speer, father of W. S. Speer, took a prominent part in politics and was the first county commissioner elected in Guernsey county, and served as justice of the peace for a number of years. He was one of the pioneer advocates of prohibition. He followed farming and for a number of years kept a hotel in Cambridge, Ohio. He and his wife spent their lives in Ohio and are both now deceased. They were the parents of eight children as follows; John S., was a major in the United States Signal Corps, in the Civil war, and is now a retired minister at Cambridge, Ohio, W. S., the subject of this sketch; Matthew W., served in the United States Signal Corps during the Civil war, and was with Sheridan in the eastern army; Henry was a lieutenant in Company H, Seventy-eighth regiment, Ohio infantry, and was mortally wounded before Atlanta, July 22, 1864; Newton, died at the age of eight; James F., a farmer, Edgerton; Anna Margaret, married James A. Lorimer, of Johnson county, and Ella, resides at Pasadena, Calif. W. S. Speer was reared in Guernsey county, Ohio, educated in the public schools and when a youth learned the carpenter’s trade. November 1, 1861, he enlisted at Cambridge, Ohio, in Company A, Seventy-eighth regiment, Ohio infantry, as a private, and during his term of service was promoted to sergeant. He participated in the following engagements; Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Grand Junction, La Grange, Bolivar, Iuka, Memphis, siege of Vicksburg and Monroeville. At the expiration of his term he reenlisted at Vicksburg, as a veteran volunteer, and after a thirty days’ furlough joined the Seventeenth corps at Cairo, Ill., where it remained one day and then under command of Gen. Frank Blair, embarked on boats and passed up the Tennessee river to Clifton. On the morning of the sixteenth day of May, 1864, the long march overland across Tennessee, northern Alabama and into the heart of Georgia was commenced. Tennessee was respected as a loyal State. No foraging was allowed, not even a garden or a hen roost was disturbed. The march was the longest and most severe one that the men had ever made, but they stood it well. They plodded on without a murmur through chocking dust and also rain and mud, fording creeks and rivers and resting at night without shelter from the dew and rain, their weary limbs and backs aching under the weight of the knapsacks, arms and other munitions of war. After that he was at the battle of Resaca, Big Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain, siege of Atlanta, being wounded twice in the latter engagement. He was struck by a fragment of an exploding shell and received a gunshot wound in the cheek. From Atlanta he was with Sherman in his famous march to the sea and after the surrender of Lee his regiment marched to Washington and participated in the grand review. They then went to Louisville, Ky., where they were discharged, July 17, 1865. He then returned to Cambridge, Ohio, and engaged in farming until 1868, when he came to Kansas and located on a farm in Johnson county where he has since been successfully engaged in farming and stock raising. He resides in Olathe and directs his farm from there. Mr. Speer was united in marriage March 7, 1866, to Anna Wilson, of Cambridge, Ohio, and to this union three children were born, as follows; H. W., a teacher, Knoxville, Tenn.; Myrtle and Mary were both teachers and are now deceased. The wife and mother of these children died July 31, 1872, and on November 13, 1874, Mr. Speer was united in marriage to Miss Julia M. Henderson, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania. Two children were born to this union; N. C., a graduate of the Kansas City Medical College, and now a practicing physician at Osawatomie, Kan., and William Lewis, a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., now pratising his profession at Clay Center, Kan. Mr. Speer has taken an active part in local and State politics and has been a life-long Republican. He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 while in the line of March. Mr. Speer says that voting at that time was not a complicated process. He merely dropped his ballot in a coffee pot which was held out for that purpose as the soldier boys went marching by. He has held many offices of trust and responsibility and has always faithfully and efficiently discharged the duties of any office or trust imposed in him. He has served as township trustee and as a member of the school board a number of years and served as county commissioner for two terms from 1896 to 1902. In 1902 he was elected to the State legislature but refused to accept the nomination for reelection. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Franklin Post, No. 68, and is past commander. He and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian church. |
| 撮影日 | 2008-03-06 01:03:33 |
| 撮影者 | jajacks62 , Chanute |
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| 撮影地 | Olathe, Kansas, United States 地図 |
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