Jackson-Lawrence County AlArchives Biographies.....Speake, Daniel W. 1856 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 8, 2011, 5:37 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers DANIEL W. SPEAKE, County Solicitor of Jackson county, son of James B. Speake, was born July 8, 1856, in Lawrence county, Ala. James B. Speake was the son of a German family. He was born in 1803, and is now living in Lawrence county, He came from Washington county, Ky., to Alabama soon after completing his education, and taught school for a time in Lawrence county, He soon secured a small farm, and kept adding unto it until he had a large plantation and a number of slaves. He was for many years superintendent of education in Lawrence county; was once a candidate for the State Senate, and in 1865 was a member of the Constitutional Convention. In 1870-2 he was a representative to the General Assembly from his county, and was returned there in 1876-7. He had three sons in the army. Since he was last in the Legislature he has lived on his farm. He was married June 4, 1833, to Miss Sarah Brooks Lindsey, who was born August 1, 1818, and was the first white girl child born in Lawrence County. James B. Speake and wife had eight children, of whom six were sons and two daughters. Four of the sons only are now living. H. C. Speake, born June 17, 1834, now Circuit Judge of the Eighth Circuit, resides in Huntsville; John Marshal Speake, Dennis Basil Speake (who was a soldier in Forrest's Cavalry, and died in prison at Chicago), James Tucker Speake and Charles W. Speake. Daniel W. Speake worked on a farm in his early days, and attended the common schools of the county until seventeen years of age, when he began teaching, by which means he paid his own way at the University of Alabama, which institution he entered in 1877, and from which he graduated in the classical course in July, 1878. During the succeeding year he took his degree of LL.B. at the same institution. He was admitted to the bar in September, 1879, in Franklin County, this State. He practiced law for two years at Moulton, formed a copartnership with Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and practiced three years at Conrtland. He came to Scottsboro January 1, 1885, and is now county solicitor. Mr. Speake was married December 14, 1881, to Miss Caro McCalla, of Tuscaloosa, a daughter of Maj. R. C. McCalla, a prominent railroad man, chief engineer of construction of the E. T., Va. & G. Railway system, also chief engineer of the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad Co., now better known as the A. G. S. Railroad. D. W. Speake has two living children and one dead—Richard McCalla, born October 30, 1882, died July 24, 1884, Bessie and Charles Louis. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land 1888 PART III. HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE. CEREAL BELT. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jackson/bios/speake853gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb