Husband Solomon C. Speers 1 2
Born: 12 May 1832 - near Fredericktown, Washington Co, PA 2 3
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Died: Aft 1910
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Father: Apollos Speers (1801-1857) 2 4 5
Mother: Elizabeth Cooper (1803-1874) 2 5 6
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Other Spouse: Anne Eliza Walker (1836-1885) 3 - 6 May 1857 3
Wife Sarah A. Winfield 2
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Father: William Winfield (1802-1866) 2
Mother: Mary Harvey ( -1881) 2
Other Spouse: [Unk] Davis ( - ) 2
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General Notes: Husband - Solomon C. Speers
He owned and resided on a part of the Speers 'Intent,' on which he had one of the most beautiful residences on the river. He was proprietor of the Clipper Sand-Works, from which he sent to market vast quantities of sand of superior quality for manufacturing.
He and his wife began housekeeping in the house on the farm, a part of the "Speers' Intent." The dwelling was erected in 1860 by the late firm of Kiddoo & Moore, of Monongahela City.
He was proprietor of the Clipper Sand-Works, near the ferry, from which were sent to market as high as thirteen thousand tons of sand in one year, used in the manufacture of glass and as building material, etc. He was engaged in steamboating from 1853 to 1868. His early education was obtained in the common schools, but he prepared himself for business in graduating from Duff's Mercantile College of Pittsburgh. He acquired quite a competence of this world's goods and a reputation as an honorable and successful man. [HWC 1882, 650]
He was a lad of seven years when his parents removed from the farm near Frederickstown, Pennsylvania, to Speers, where they lived in an old brick house. Here he was reared to manhood and later established the Clipper Sand Works, and was at one time the owner of a tract of 180 acres, of which he sold 150 acres.