BIO: FRANK R. SPECK, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 247-248
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    FRANK R. SPECK, the well-known superintendent of the Goodyear Department
  of the Lindner Shoe Company, Carlisle, is a native-born son of Cumberland
  county, having been born in North East street, Carlisle, May 13, 1861, son of
  Daniel and Maria (Kuhn) Speck, of Franklin county, Pa., and Germany,
  respectively.
    
    Daniel Speck was born in the town of Roxbury, Franklin county, in 1824, and
  from his early boyhood was trained to the arduous duties of a farmer's life.
  In young manhood he settled at Carlisle, where he carried on farming, but for
  the last nineteen years of his life he was engaged in the bottling business.
  He was a soldier in the Mexican war, and during his service came near dying
  with the dread yellow-fever, an enemy to the soldier as much to be dreaded as
  the bullet of a foe. During the Civil war he served as a private, being given
  the responsible position of wagon master. He was married in Carlisle to Maria
  Kuhn, who was born in Germany in 1826, and was brought by her parents to
  America, when she was but six years of age. Daniel Speck died in .1898,
  preceded by his wife, who passed away in 1891. They were the parents of ten
  children, namely: Christian; Miss Mary; Maj. William, of Carlisle; John, who
  went to Arizona when he was seventeen, and has since remained there; George,
  who died in Texas in 1902; Adelia, deceased; Frank R.; Sarah, wife of Charles
  W. Kaufman, of Carlisle; Charles, of Carlisle; and Fullerton, of the same city.
    
    Frank R. Speck has made his home in Carlisle all his life. He received his
  education in the public schools, attending until he had reached the age of.
  fifteen, when he began to assist in his own support by doing whatever he
  could find to do. He continued in this way until he was twenty-two, when he
  entered the lasting department of the shoe factory of G. W. Neidich & Co.,
  where he applied himself industriously to mastering that trade. He remained
  with that firm (which is now known as the Carlisle Shoe Company) until July,
  1891. For the last two years he was in the employ of that firm he was
  superintendent of the lasting department. He then became superintendent of
  the Lindner Shoe Company, a position he continues to fill to the present time
  to the very great satisfaction of the members of the firm. From a small
  beginning Mr. Speck has, by his own industry and fidelity, risen to the top
  round in the profession he
    
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  has chosen. His success is due to no one but himself, and is the natural
  reward of honest worth.
  
    Fraternally Mr. Speck is a Mason, belonging to Cumberland Star Lodge, No.
  197, and is a past officer in all the Masonic bodies. He also belongs to the
  Mystic Shrine. He is past chancellor of the K. of P.; past grand of the I. O.
  O. F.; first exalted ruler of Lodge No. 578, B. P. O. E., Carlisle; and is a
  member of the P. O. S. of A., and of the Maccabees. His religious connection
  is with the Reformed Church. In his political views he is a stanch
  Republican. His first vote was cast for James G. Blaine for President, and he
  has never swerved in his allegiance to. the party. He is very patriotic, and
  believes it to be the duty of every good citizen of the country to take an
  active interest in the various movements that affect, or seem to affect, the
  nation's welfare. He is thoroughly posted on all public questions, and while
  rather reticent about expressing his opinions, is able to maintain them with
  logical arguments when once expressed. For seventeen years he served in the
  Eighth Regiment, P: N. G., and rose to the rank of battalion sergeant-major.
  His life has been an upright one, and in the city where it has been passed
  and his every deed known he is held in high esteem.