Background
Speer, William H. was born on October 21, 1868 in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Son of William H. and Eleanor C. (Brinkerhoff) Speer.
Speer, William H. was born on October 21, 1868 in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Son of William H. and Eleanor C. (Brinkerhoff) Speer.
Student Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City. Columbia University, class 1891. Doctor of Laws, John Marshall Law School, Jersey City, 1930.
Admitted to New Jersey bar, 1891, and practiced in Jersey City, 1891-1923, Newark since 1923. Member firm Linn & Speer. Judge, Circuit Court Justices of New Jersey, 1908-1923.
Prosecutor of the pleas for Hudson County, New Jersey, 1903-1908.
General attorney Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, 1923-1948, director company and its affiliates 1924-1956. President, director Middlesex Water Company.
President, director Plainfield Union Water Company until 1957, Counsel, since 1957.
Member of board of managers, Executive Committee The Provident Savings Institution of Jersey City. Trustee and; Member American and New Jersey bar associations. Clubs: Morristown.
Married Merretta Kirby, January 10, 1900. Children: John Kirby (deceased) William H. (deceased), Eleanor (Mistress Charles H. Seydel).
