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Harold Speakman
Harold Dunham Speakman (November 30, 1888 – September 24, 1928) was an early twentieth-century American author and artist, best known for the travel narratives ''Here’s Ireland'' (1925) and ''Mostly Mississippi'' (1927). Early life and education Harold Speakman was born on November 30, 1888, in the Greenville, Jersey City, Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey. His mother, Virginia Brandreth Dunham, was the eldest daughter of the publisher Oscar Mortimer Dunham, president of Cassell (publisher), Cassell and Company in New York. Harold's father, William Allibone Speakman, Jr., died less than one year after his birth, in November 1889. After her husband's death, Virginia and Harold moved to Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1897, Virginia married William Dennis Reed, the assistant secretary of Northwestern National Insurance Company; he later became the president of the company. They had several more children, one of whom, Philip D. Reed, Philip Dunham Reed, became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenville, Jersey City
Greenville is the southernmost section of Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Geography In its broadest definition, Greenville encompasses the area south of the West Side Branch of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and north of the city line with Bayonne, between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay, and corresponds to the postal area zip code 07305. The central core of Greenville (between Garfield Avenue and West Side Avenue) is primarily residential, consisting mostly of one- and two-family homes and lowrise apartment buildings. Principal thoroughfares include MLK Drive, Old Bergen Road and Danforth Avenue. East of New Jersey Turnpike Newark Bay Extension (Interstate 78) lie the Greenville Yard, an intermodal facility, Port Jersey, Port Liberté, (a gated residential community), and the Caven Point Section of Liberty State Park. Slightly further inland and parallel to the route of the Turnpike was the route of the Morris Canal until it was abandoned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
