Biography

12/23/1880 - 08/05/1948


SPEISER, Maurice Joseph, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, December 23, 1880 in New York City, New York County, NY; attorney-at-law (1905-1948); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1912; resigned from the House, June 27, 1913; appointed, Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia County (1913-1926); died, August 5, 1948 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Chelten Hills 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.
 
Hemingway Legal Files Collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
 
Correspondence and Miscellaneous Manuscripts, University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania Library.
 


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