Smyth, Frederick – Snow, Elbridge Gerry
Smyth, Frederick
governor. was governor of New Hampshire for two years, from 1865 to 1867.
Smyth, George W
congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was elected a representative in congress from Texas from 1853 to 1855. (
Smyth, Herbert Weir
educator, author, was born Aug. 8, 1857, in Wilmington, Del. He is a professor of Greek in Bryn Mawr college from 1888, and the author of Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects.
Smyth, Julian Kennedy
clergyman, author, was born in 1856 in New York. He is a Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston, and the author of Footprints of the Saviour; and Holy Names as Interpretations of the Story of the Manger and the Cross.
SMYTH (SAMUEL), NEWMAN (PHIL- LIPS), clergyman, author, was born June 25, 1843, in Maine. He is a congregational clergyman of prominence and of liberal theology, and pastor of the First church at New Haven from 1882. He is the author of Old Faiths in New Light; The Orthodox Theology of To-Day; The Religious Feeling; The Morality of the Old Testament; Personal Creeds; Christian Ethics; Dorner on the Future State; and The Reality of Faith.
Smyth, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born July 14, 1808, in Ireland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Charleston, pastor of the Second church in 1832- 73, and very active as a controversialist, among whose many writings are: Lectures on the Prelatical Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession; History of the Westminster Assembly; Why Do I Live?
Solace for Bereaved Parents; Calvin and His Enemies; and Ecclesiastical Republicanism. He died Aug. 20, 1873, in Charleston, S. C.
Smyth, Thomas A
soldier, was born in Ireland. He served through the civil war, and for gallant and meritorious services received the rank of brigadier-general. He died April 6, 1865, in Farmville, Va.
Smyth, William
educator, author, was born in 1797 in Pittston, Maine. He is an educator who was professor of mathematics at Bowdoin college from 1825, and is the author of Elements of Algebra; Treatise on Algebra; Trigonometry, Surveying, and Navigation; Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus; and Lectures on Modern History. He died April 3, 1868, in Brunswick, Maine.
Smyth, William
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1824, in Ireland. In 1848-53 he was attorney for Linn county, Iowa; was judge of the same from 1854 to 1857; and in 1858 was appointed a commissioner to codify the state laws. He was a colonel of Iowa volunteers from 1862 to 1864, and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-first congress.
Snapp, H
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 30, 1822, in Livingston county, N. Y. He was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1869, and served until elected to the forty-second congress as a republican.
Snead, Thomas Lowndes
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Jan. 10, 1828, in Henrico county, Va. He was a St. Louis lawyer who served in the confederate army, and after 1865 resumed his profession in New York city. He was the author of The Fight for Missouri in 1861. He died Oct. 17, 1890, in New York city.
SNEED. JOHN LOUIS TAYLOR, soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born May 12, 1820, in Raleigh, N. C. He was a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1845; and was captain of a Tennessee company in the Mexican war in 1846-47. He was judge of the state supreme court in 1870-78, and of the court of arbitration in 1879, and judge of the state court of referees in 1883-84.
In 1888 he was chosen president of the Memphis School of Law. He is the author of Reports of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1854-59.
Sneed, William H
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.
Snelling, Henry Hunt
author, was born Nov. 8, 1817, in Plattsburg, N.
Y.
He is a writer living at Cornwall, N. Y., from 1871, and the author of History and Practice of Photography; and Dictionary of the Photographic Art.
Snelling, Josiah
soldier, author, was born in 1782, in Boston, Mass. He was distinguished in the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811; and attained the rank of colonel. He was the author of Remarks on General Hull's Memoirs. He died Aug. 20, 1829, in Washington, D. C.
Snelling, William Joseph
journalist, author, was born Dec. 26, 1804, in Boston, Mass. He was a journalist of Boston; and the author of The Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored; Truth: a Satirical Poem; and Six Months in a House of Correction. He died Dec. 24, 1848, in Chelsea, Mass.
Snethen, Nicholas
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 15, 1769, in Glen Cove, L. I. He was a methodist itinerant preacher, active in the formation of the methodist protestant denomination; and the author of Preaching the Gospel; Lay Representation; and Lectures on Biblical Subjects. He died May 30, 1845, in Princeton, Ind.
Snider, Denton Jaques
lecturer, author, was born Jan. 9, 1841, in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. He is a literary lecturer of St. Louis; and the author of System of Shakespeare's Dramas; A Walk in Hellas; Delphic Days, an idyl in the elegiac distich; Agamemnon's Daughter, a classic romantic poem; An Epigrammatic Voyage; Goethe's Faust: a Commentary; and The Shakespearean Drama.
Snider, Samuel Prather
soldier, agriculturist, manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1845, in Mt. Gilead, Ohio.
He enlisted as a private soldier in the sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry; served with his regiment in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; and was wounded at the battle of Stone River, and severely wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Chickamauga. He served in West Tennessee as captain in the thirteenth United States colored infantry.
He moved to Minnesota in 1876; organized and built the Midland railway; and is engaged in farming, mining, and manufacturing in Minneapolis. He served in the Minnesota legislature from 1884 to 1888; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Snively, William Andrew
clergyman, author, was born in 1833 in Pennsylvania. He is an episcopal clergyman of Louisville; and the author of Family Prayers for the Christian Year; Testimonies to the Supernatural; Parish Lectures on the Prayer Book; AEsthetics in Worship; and The Oberammergau Passion Play.
Snodgrass, Henry C
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1848 in White county, Tenn. He commenced the practice of law in Sparta, Tenn., which he still continues.
He was attorney-general of the fifth judicial circuit for eight years; and was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Snodgrass, John Fryall
lawyer, congressman, was born March 2, 1804, in Berkeley county, Va. He was a lawyer by profession, and practiced in Parkersburg, Va. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1853 to 1854, He died June 5, 1854, in Parkersburg, W. Va.
Snover, Horace G
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1847, in Romeo, Mich. He was probate judge of Huron county, Mich., from 1881 to 1885; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and reelected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Snow, Alvin Lincoln
clergyman, author, poet, was born Jan. 29, 1862, in Ellison, Ill. He has attained success as a clergyman, and has filled pastorates in various churches in the western states.
He is the author of Songs of the White Mountains and Other Poems, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
He now fills a pastorate in his church at Lenox, Iowa; and has filled many of the most important offices in the gift of his denomination.
Snow, Anna Le Conte Brooks
president of Daughters of the Revolution, was born Sept. 25, 1855, in Philadelphia, Pa.. She is a graduate of Vassar college, and the honored president of the Daughters of the Revolution.
Snow, Arthur H
lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1841 in Clinton, Mich. He has been county attorney of Winona county, Minn.; mayor of Winona; and president of the board of education. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Minnesota state legislature.
Snow, Caleb Hopkins
physician, author, was born April 1, 1796, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston physician who published A History of Boston; and Geography of Boston and Adjacent Towns. He died July 6, 1835, in Boston, Mass.
Snow, Elbridge Gerry
underwriter, was born Jan. 22, 1841, in Waterbury, Conn. He read law in an office in his native city; and in 1862 entered the New York office of the Home Insurance company, of which he became the Massachusetts general agent in 1873. In 1885 he was appointed assistant secretary in the New York office; and three years later was elected a director and vice-president of the company, which positions he still fills. He is a member of the New York Geological society, and various other organizations.