Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Francis Speir Jr.
Lawyer
Centurion, 1899–1925
Proposed by
M. Taylor Pyne and Frederick Sturges
M. Taylor Pyne and Frederick Sturges
born
November 11, 1856
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
March 9, 1925
South Orange, New Jersey
South Orange, New Jersey
elected
December 2, 1899
Age forty-three
Age forty-three
buried
Rosedale Cemetery,
Orange, New Jersey
Orange, New Jersey
Century Memorial
Francis Speir, Jr., was a business man with decided literary tastes. His volume of verses, In Colima, and Other Poems, was published in 1912 and is on the shelves of the Century.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1926 Century Association Yearbook