Biography

05/15/1884 - 09/22/1968


SPEISER, Martha Glazer, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, May 15, 1884 in Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland; Philadelphia chair, Red Cross (World War I); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1923 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1924); member, Philadelphia Orchestra Association; member, Philadelphia Council of the Performing Arts; died, September 22, 1968 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Sinai Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
 


Archival Collections

 
Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Foundation Collection of Ernest Hemingway, Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
 


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