JOSHUA FRY SPEED.

Joshua Fry Speed was born November 14, 1814. His parents were John Speed and Lucy G. Speed. They came from Virginia to Kentucky in 1783, in their early youth. The father of John Speed was Captain James Speed, who was born in Mecklinburg, Va., and obtained his title by service in the Revolutionary War. The father of Lucy G. Speed was Joshua Fry. Captain James Speed and Joshua Fry are both noted in the early history of Kentucky. The former, as a member of the Conventions by which the State was separated from Virginia and became a separate commonwealth; the latter for his connection with educational interests. The ancestors of each came from England, and settled in Virginia prior to the beginning of the last century.

John Speed and Lucy G. Fry were married in 1809. They lived at the old homestead, known as Farmington, on the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike road, about five miles from Louisville. There Joshua F. Speed was born, the fifth in a family of ten children, all of whom except one survived him. He was well educated at the schools in Jefferson County, and under the tuition of Joshua Fry, and at St. Joseph's College, at Bardstown.