Gustave A. Speis and Amanda Kline

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Husband Gustave A. Speis ¹

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           Born:  - Berleburg, Germany
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         Father: George Speis (Abt 1820-Aft 1890) 2
         Mother: Johana Mellsoff (Abt 1833-1881) 2

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       Marriage: 1888 2

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Wife Amanda Kline ¹

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         Father: Lewis Kline (      -1892) 3 4 5
         Mother: Catharine Cort (1820-1887) 4 6 7

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Children

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1 F Olive Speis ²

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General Notes: Husband - Gustave A. Speis

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He was reared in his native town and attended school at Wetzler, Hessen, Germany. Leaving school he learned the trade of jeweler with his father. In 1882 he came to America and located at Steubenville, Ohio, with his brother, William G., who had immigrated to America some years previous to that time. In 1883 he went to Allegheny City, where he accepted a position with Otto E. Heineman, a leading jeweler of that city. He worked for Mr. Heineman for three years and then moved to Irwin, Westmoreland County, where he engaged, on April 1, 1886, in the jewelry business.
He attended the German Reformed church and was a member of Improved Heptasophs and Knights and Ladies of Honor.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 115, 412.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 412.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 112.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 111.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 53.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1005.

7 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 91.