Background
Speakman, Harold was born on November 30, 1888 in Greenville, New Jersey, United States. Son of William A. and Virginia B. (Dunham) Speakman.
Speakman, Harold was born on November 30, 1888 in Greenville, New Jersey, United States. Son of William A. and Virginia B. (Dunham) Speakman.
Student Chicago Academy Fine Arts, 1908-1910, Munich, 1911-1912, Paris, 1912-1913.
Instructor Chicago Academy Fine Arts, 1914, Brooklyn School Allied Arts, 1916. Contributor verse, decorations, Harper’s, Everybody’s Magazine, Life, et cetera Joined R.O.T.C., Plattsburg, New York, May 1917.
Second in command Lieutenant infantry and assigned to 332d Regiment.
Served on Italian front, Piave trenches, Battle of Vittorio Veneto. In Balkans, Montenegrin Revolution.
Honorary discharged as First lieutenant, May 1919. Author: Songs of Hope, 1917.
The Youngest Shepherd, 1917.
From a Soldier’s Heart, 1919. Beyond Shanghai, 1922. Hilltops in Galilee, 1923.
This Above All (novel), 1924.
Here’s Ireland, 1925 (all volumes illustrated by self except the novel). Mostly Mississippi, 1927.
Made thousand-mile journey on foot around Ireland, 1924. Descended Mississippi River from headwaters to Gulf by canoe and house boat, 1926-1927.
Home: New York, New New York
Married (Frances) Russell Lindsay, artist, July 3, 1925.