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Joshua Fry Speed (November 14, 1814 – May 29, 1882) was an American politician who was a close friend of future President Abraham Lincoln from his days...

Sandburg alluded to the early relationship of Lincoln and his friend Joshua Fry Speed as having "a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets". "Streak...

(1542–1629), English cartographer John Speed (Kentucky) (1772–1840), American judge and farmer Joshua Fry Speed (1814–1882), American businessman and intimate...

Fry Speed married James D. Breckinridge, a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Philip Speed married Emma Keats, niece of John Keats. Joshua Fry Speed roomed...

of Farmington in Louisville, Kentucky, and father of Joshua Fry Speed and James Speed John Speed Smith (1792–1854), U.S. Representative This disambiguation...

second wife, Lucy Gilmer Fry. He was a distant descendant of the English cartographer John Speed and brother of Joshua Fry Speed. He graduated from St....

Louis Bayard, centering on Lincoln's relationships with Mary Todd and Joshua Fry Speed, Abraham Lincoln's good friend, in Springfield from 1839 to 1842. Mary...

1861, but a letter from Joshua Fry Speed, Lincoln's close friend, suggests that Lincoln preferred Anderson's removal. Speed met with Anderson and found...

longer accepted. It was during his time as an Illinois legislator that Joshua Fry Speed said Lincoln anonymously published a suicide poem in the Sangamo Journal;...

Joseph Holt James S. Jackson Robert Mallory John W. Menzies James Speed Joshua Fry Speed William H. Wadsworth Louisiana W. Jasper Blackburn John Edward Bouligny...

rapper Jack Harlow, the Speed family (including U.S. Attorney General James Speed and Abraham Lincoln's close friend Joshua Fry Speed), the Bingham family...

1861-1865 (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2011) Holt, Joseph, and Joshua Fry Speed. The Fallacy of Neutrality: An Address by the Hon. Joseph Holt, to...

alliances. Prominent Louisville attorney James Speed, brother of Lincoln's close friend Joshua Fry Speed, strongly advocated keeping the state in the Union...

the Massachusetts Historical Society. Speed built the house for his wife, Lucy Gilmer Fry, daughter of Joshua Fry and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Walker...

resigned in 1864, and was replaced by James Speed, the older brother of Lincoln's close friend, Joshua Fry Speed. Lincoln tasked Vice President-elect Hamlin...

was to work out details for a distribution of arms in Kentucky with Joshua Fry Speed in Louisville, and as he headed off, Secretary of War Simon Cameron...

penned three historical mystery novels featuring Lincoln and his friend Joshua Fry Speed as the protagonists. Lincoln appears in the season 1 episode "The Assassination...

Virginia. Mildred's Uncle Austin Peay had married Peachy Speed, sister of Joshua Fry Speed and James Speed. Since Mildred's father had sold his home and was...

Joshua Fry Bullitt Jr. (July 24, 1856 – April 20, 1932) was a Virginia lawyer who practiced in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. He was one of the leading citizens...

Fry (1915–1950), British racing driver Joseph Fry (disambiguation), multiple people Joshua Fry (1699–1754), English surveyor and adventurer Ken Fry (1920–2007)...