BIOGRAPHIES: Silas SPEED, Barron, Barron County, WI

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Silas Speed, Barron, sheriff of Barron county, was born in Racine, Wis., 
April 27, 1850, and is a son of George and Ann (Bonstell) Speed, natives 
of New York, who settled in Wisconsin in 1849.  His early life was spent 
in Juneau county, where he was educated in the common schools.  He was 
engaged as a railroad man from 1867 to 1878, in which latter year he came 
to Barron county and located in the city of Barron and operated a saw-mill 
for about a year.  He then received an appointment under the sheriff of 
Barron county and took charge of the jail, under A. J. Barton, for two 
years, and held the same office under J. N. Plate for three years.  He was 
elected sheriff in 1884.  In 1890 he was re-elected by a majority of 196, 
there being three candidates in the field.  In 1872 Mr. Speed married Miss 
Ellen, daughter of John and Lucinda (Porter) Galvin, natives of Canada, and 
two children have been born to them, Perry and Carrie.  He is a member of 
Masonic Lodge No. 220, of Barron, and politically is a republican.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", page .