Camden County NJ Archives Biographies.....William Elwood SPEAKMAN, 1858 - 1915
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Author: Mary Depue Ogden, Editor  (1917)

SPEAKMAN, William Elwood, 
Man of Affairs.

  A scion of distinguished Colonial and Revolutionary family, Mr. Speakman was
widely and prominently connected with many leading patriotic and historical
societies of Philadelphia, New Jersey and elsewhere, and after an active,
successful business life retired to his home in Woodbury, New Jersey, and there
resided until his death. He was widely known as a chemist and able business man
throughout New Jersey and the Eastern States, his long connection with the
wholesale drug trade through his prominent Philadelphia house bringing him
prominently before the trade. He had other important business interests, and was
a well-known club member as well as being deeply interested in fraternity and
philanthropy. A man of culture and refinement, he sought only that which was
noble and elevating in life and numbered his friends among those of similar tastes.

  William Elwood Speakman was born in Camden, New Jersey, December 13, 1858,
died at his home in Woodbury, New Jersey, May 13, 1915. After extended courses
of preparatory and classical study, he entered Philadelphia College of Pharmacy,
whence he was graduated and awarded the pharmacist's degree. His business life
was spent in Philadelphia in association with a leading wholesale drug house,
and after a successful business career he withdrew from active participation in
its affairs, retiring to the companionship of his books, his friends, indulging
in extensive travels abroad and in pursuits congenial to a man of his tastes and
means. He was a director of the Delaware Insurance Company, member of the board
of managers of Red Bank Sanitarium, and of the Transatlantic Society of America,
and held membership in the Atlantic Union of London, the Colonial Society of New
England, the New Jersey Society Sons of the Revolution, Pennsylvania Society
Sons of the Revolution, the Washington Association of Morristown, New Jersey,
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Historical Society of New Jersey.
His clubs were the Union League of Philadelphia, Philobiblon Society of
Philadelphia, and the Navy League. He was a member of Florence Lodge, No. 87,
Free and Accepted Masons, also holding the degrees of Royal Arch and Templar
Masonry. He was a devout churchman, serving Christ Episcopal Church, Woodbury,
as vestryman and senior warden for many years.

  Mr. Speakman married, October 15, 1885, Martha C. Winchester, of Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, who survives him with one daughter, Eleanor B. Speakman, and two
brothers, Rev. Henry D. Speakman and Dr. Howard Draper Speakman, of Pau, France.


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MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF MARY DEPUE OGDEN

VOLUME III
MEMORIAL HISTORY COMPANY NEWARK,  NEW JERSEY
1917


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