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Francis Speir Jr.

Lawyer

Centurion, 1899–1925

Born 11 November 1856 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 9 March 1925 in South Orange, New Jersey

Buried Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey

Proposed by M. Taylor Pyne and Frederick Sturges

Elected 2 December 1899 at age forty-three

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