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14.02.1854 Hamburg, 
09.10.1941 Southampton, Long Island, New York, [I7468], N: merchant/banker at G. Amsinck & Cy, NYCity, He resided at 30 Central Park South, city. He was a member of the Union, Racquet, and Tennis Clubs, the Germania and Jockey Clubs, the Down Town Association, the Circle Colon Cervantes and the Deutscher Verein.Speck, the grandfather of the German Ambassador, had been a cattle drover who accompanied his steers to England where he discovered a fortune in beef. He then took his money into Saxony where he purchased the Sternburg estate. Made a knight and a Baron, he was succeeded by his grandson who wed the beautiful Miss Langham of Kentucky whose family had no real fortune. From the post of Consul General in India, Baron Speck had been made Ambassador to the United States.
1920 USA
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, 28.09.1879 San Francisco, California, Nov 1959 Southampton Hospital, Southampton, NY, [I7469], N: married twice, Parents Charles Edward Langham +1904, Mrs May Anita Langham.She married 1920 in Berlin as Baroness Illian May Speck Sternburg, nee Langham, widow of Baron Hermann Speck, former German Ambassador to the United States.