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Born 1808
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
SPECK JOSEPH, Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Baden, Germany, November 7, 1808; son of Starnus and Avon Speck. At the age of seventeen he began the blacksmith trade with Ignatius Storts, and served three years, then worked as a journeyman one year. He then served six years in the German army; then sold clocks two years; then embarked for America, and after a voyage of eight months landed in New York, and from there he came to Jefferson township, Coshocton county, where he has remained a resident ever since. After coming to this country he sold clocks one year, and since then has been farming. He was married in May, 1837, to Miss Caroline Gamertsfelder, who died January 6, 1844. They had two children, viz.: Christian and John. He married, in June, 1844, Miss Margaret Straum. They had seven children, viz.: Gotlieb, Joseph; Caroline, deceased; David, William, Daniel and George.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Joseph Speck: S. J. Carpenter (b. 1873) J. R. Speck (b. 1874)
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