James Breckinridge Speed (1844-1912)

James Breckinridge Speed

Birth

4 Jan 1844

Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, USA

Death

7 Jul 1912 (aged 68)

Rockland, Knox County, Maine, USA

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Cave Hill Cemetery

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SECTION 1 Lot 203

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Industrialist, military figure. Adjutant of the 27th Kentucky Brigade (Union). Served under General William T. Sherman in Atlanta and Knoxville engagements. To honor him, Speed's children established the Speed Scientific School at the University of Louisville in 1825 and his second wife established Louisville's Speed Art Museum in 1927.

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Harriett Theresa "Hattie" Bishop Speed

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Olive Speed Sackett

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