OBIT: Asa SPEICHER, Dr., 1941, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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ASA SPEICHER

  Dr. Asa Speicher, 86, former Maryland legislator, resident of Grantsville, 
Md., and Salisbury, Pa., died at his home in Los Angeles, Calif., May 12, 1941.
  He was born in Accident, Maryland, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Speicher, and 
early in life qualified himself to practice medicine and minor surgery, and 
practiced his profession at Grantsville, Md. for some years.  While located 
there, he also served as a member of the Maryland Legislature.
  About the year 1883 he located in Salisbury, Pa., where he practiced his 
profession for about 18 years, some of them among the most prosperous years 
Salisbury and vicinity have ever seen, and during that time he built a lucrative 
practice.  During his residence in Salisbury he also served as a member of the 
School Board and Town Council, and was an enterprising, popular citizen, and 
very active in church work.
  Before leaving Salisbury, he sold his residence, office equipment, etc., to 
Dr. E. H. Perry, and then took a post-graduate course at Columbia University 
School of Medicine, in New York City.
  He located in Los Angeles in 1903, and since then practiced at his first 
office there, 3015 S. Vermont Avenue.  He was a member of the Knights of Pythias 
and trustee and Sunday school superintendent of the University Methodist Church 
of Los Angeles.
  Funeral services were conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the church under 
direction of Bresee Bros. & Gillette Mortuary.  Dr. Speicher leaves his widow, 
two sons, Dr. Robert A. Speicher and Ernest E. Speicher, and three daughters, 
Mrs. Albert B. Ulrey, Mrs. William F. Cerini and Miss Maude Speicher.

Meyersdale Republican, May 22, 1941