Chester County PA Archives News.....History recalled May 26 1944
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When the borough of Coatesville graduated from the old gas street lights into 
the gleam of electricity, the honor of pushing the button that shed the first 
electrics over the town, fell to four-year- old Anna Martha Speakman, 
grandaughter of the late Col. F. B. Speakmanand daughter of the late Mr and 
Mrs. Charles Speakman.
That little girl now Mrs. Stewart Alexander, of Durham,N.C.is at present a 
vistor at the home of Mrs. Guy B. Griswold, 1028 Olive Street. She comments on 
the great changes from the first electric lighting here in comparsion with the 
now white way and the beautiful city lightning. She now has two sons in the 
armed Forces of the present war. Her husband served in World War I. He 
returned in poor health, but has fully recovered.
Mrs. Griseold (Janet)daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Doan,and Anna Marhta, 
Mrs.Alexander, have been close friends since girlhood days.



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