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Notes about Joshua Fry Speed

Friend and confidant of president Abraham Lincoln. Left Louisville in 1835 for Springfield IL, where he befriended Lincoln, became a merchant and worked as a newspaper editor. During Civil War, served as Lincoln's western affairs adviser. Lincoln offered Speed Secretary of Treasury position several times, but he declined each. Lincoln visited Speed family plantation, Farmington, in Louisville, for six weeks in 1841. Farmington believe based on a design by Thomas Jefferson. Lincoln appointed James Speed, brother of Joshua, Attorney General in December 1864. James also buried Cave Hill. Joshua Speed's parents were Judge James and Lucy Fry Speed. His wife was Fannie Henning.
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Joshua Fry Speed

Joshua Fry
1760-1839
Peachy Walker
1767-1811
James Speed
1740-1811
Mary Spencer
1742-1829

Joshua Fry Speed
1814-1882


Francis Speed
1820-1902


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    2. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com

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    Birthday November 14, 1814

    • The temperature on November 14, 1814 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1814: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 14 » Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway to Charles XIII of Sweden in return for Pomerania.
      • January 29 » War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
      • February 1 » Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
      • March 28 » War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels of equal strength.
      • April 4 » Napoleon abdicates for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.
      • July 24 » War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.

    Day of death May 29, 1882

    • The temperature on May 29, 1882 was about 18.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1882: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • March 24 » Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
      • May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
      • June 6 » The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
      • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
      • July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
      • September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
    

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