Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Speer, (Senator) John A. November 11, 1879
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia
NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 14, 1879
DEATH OF SENATOR JNO. A. SPEER
From the Atlanta Constitution of the 11th inst., we learn of the death of
Senator Jno. A. Speer of this Senatorial district, which occurred on the
10th inst. at Clifton Springs, New York [Ontario Co.], whither he had gone just
before the session of the Legislature closed, with the hope of being benefited
in health. Senator Speer had suffered for several years from bad health. The
Constitution gives the following short sketch of his career:
Senator Speer represented the 37th senatorial district composed of the
counties of Troup, Heard and Carroll. He was forty-five years of age and a
man of force and character. He was born in Abbeville district of South
Carolina, of a family of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and his ancestry
contains names famous in the history of South Carolina and illustrious in
the history of the Revolution.
He received his education at Oglethorpe University and was a man of
information and thought. He became a student of the law under Judge
Buchanan, now judge of the Coweta circuit, and as the senior one of the firm
of Speer & Speer, has always had a large and lucrative practice. He was a
captain in the Confederate Army and served to the end of the war. He has won
reputation not only as an eloquent orator and able lawyer, but as a wife and
successful financier. He has been all the while a director and large
shareholder in the LaGrange banking and trust company, in which one of his
brothers are officers. In 1878 he was one of the Georgia commissioners to the
Paris Exposition, and spent some time in European travel.
Senator Speer was a man of stern integrity and rigid moral character. He was
admired and respected by all who knew him and his loss will be deeply felt
in LaGrange and surrounding country. As a senator he was thoroughly the
conscientious legislator and gave to his public duties the most painstaking
labor and devotion. He was a positive man in all he did and his acts will
always read well whether upon the records of private or public life. The
remains of the deceased will doubtless pass through here enroute to LaGrange
tomorrow or Thursday.
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