Snow, Francis Huntington – Sollers, Augustus R
Snow, Francis Huntington
educator, college president, scientist, was born June 29, 1840, in Fitchburg, Mass.
He received his education at the Williams college, Andover Theological seminary, and the Agassiz School of Natural History, and has received the degrees of Ph. D. and LL. D. He has been principal of the high school of Fitchburg, Mass.; in 1866-70 was professor of mathematics and natural science in the university of Kansas; and professor of natural history in the same institution during 1870-89. Since that time he has been professor of botany and entomology in the university of Kansas, and president and chancellor of that institution since 1890. He is eminently successful as a lecturer, and a thorough believer in the doctrines of evolution. He has been an enthusiastic scientist; has made frequent excursions upon the plains and into the mountains of Colorado and New Mexico, which have resulted in valuable additions to the Zoölogical, Botanical, Entomological, and Paleontological museums. He has discovered many new species of insects, a score of which have been named in his honor.
Snow, Herman W
lawyer, educator, state legislator, congressman, was born July 3, 1836, in La Porte county, Ind. He served in most of the southern states, and was provost-marshal-general of Georgia on Major-General Steedman's staff. At the expiration of service he resumed teaching in the Chicago High school for three years. He was elected to the Illinois legislature; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Snow, John F
educator, orator, was born June 17, 1854, in Portland, Ind. After ten years devoted to the work of student and teacher in the various school grades he attained the degree of bachelor of science. In 1883 he was chosen county superintendent of Adams county, Ind., and has since been five times re-elected to the same position.
As a member of the Indiana County Superintendents' association he has served on various educational committees, and in 1890 was chosen president of the association. He has contributed extensively to current literature on educational topics; and is the author of a biographical work.
Snow, Lorenzo
was born April 3, 1814, in Mantua, Ohio. In 1893 he was elected president of the twelve apostles of the Mormon church, Salt Lake City, Utah, which office he still holds.
Snow, Marshall Solomon
educator, author, was born Aug. 17, 1842, in Hyannis, Mass. He is a professor of history in Washington university; and the author of The City Government of St.
Louis.
Snow, William Dunham
soldier, lawyer, poet, inventor, was born Feb. 2, 1832, in Webster, Mass. Since his graduation at Columbia Law school in 1876 he has practiced in New York city and in the federal courts. He has invented a successful carburettor, a gas-regulator, a thermostatic apparatus for the maintenance of equal heat for furnaces and steam apparatus, and a system for fac-simile telegraphy. He is the author of several anti-slavery poems, and has contributed to magazines.
Snow, William W
congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He removed to New York; and was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-second congress.
Snow, Zerubbabel
lawyer, jurist, was an early emigrant to the territory of Utah; and in 1850 was appointed a judge of the United States court for that district.
Snowden, Archibald Loudon
inventor, was born Aug. 11, 1837, in Cumberland county, Pa. He was made register of the United States mint on May 7, 1857; became chief coiner on Oct. 1, 1866, and in 1877-79 was postmaster of Philadelphia.
In 1879-85 he was superintendent of the mint, and in 1878 he declined the office of general director of all the mints in the United States.
Snowden, David Harold
educator, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born April 25, 1842, in Fairview C. H., W. Va.
He has attained eminence as a clergyman of the congregational church; has filled pastorates in various cities, and now fills a pastorate in Nickerson, Kan.
He has received the degrees of M. D., Ph.
D., D. D., LL. D., F.R.
S., and is a member of many learned bodies.
For many years he taught Hebrew and Greek; is a brilliant lecturer; and the author of Is Man a Creation; The Seven Most Prominent of the Twenty-Five Bibles of the World; God's Hand in American History, and other works. In 1898 he was appointed assistant surgeon-general of the western department, with the rank of colonel in the regular army.
Snowden, James Ross
numismatist, congressman, author, was born in 1810 in Chester, Pa. He was speaker of the house of representatives of Pennsylvania from 1842 to 1844. He was state treasurer from 1845 to 1847; was treasurer of the United States mint from 1847 to 1850, and director of the same from 1853 to 1861. He published Descriptions of Coins in the United States Mint; Description of Medals in the United States Mint; The Mint at Philadelphia; Coins of the Bible; and The Corn Planter Memorial. He was also the author of the Articles on Coins of the United States in the National Almanac of 1873, and many pamphlets on the subject.
He died March 21, 1878, in Hulmeville, Pa.
Snyder, Adam Clark
lawyer, jurist, was born March 26, 1834, in Highland county, Va. For nine years he was judge of the supreme court of West Virginia.
Snyder, Adam W
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1801. He frequently served in the state legislature of Illinois; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839. He died May 14, 1842, in Belleville, Ill.
Snyder, Charles Philip
lawyer, congressman, was born June 9, 1847, near Charleston, W. Va. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Kanawha county, W. Va., in 1876; was re-elected in 1880, and continued to serve until elected a representative from West Virginia to the fortyeighth congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Snyder, Elmore William
banker, railroad president, was born Nov. 23, 1850, in Wayne county, N. Y. He is the president of the Manufacturers' National bank of Leavenworth, Kan.; and president of the Leavenworth Terminal railway.
Snyder, Greeley B
physician, surgeon, was born May 8, 1860, in Henry county, Ill. He studied medicine in the medical department of the university of Michigan, and at the Bellevue Hospital Medical college of New York city, from which institution he graduated in 1885..
He has attained success in his profession, and is one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Iowa at Rock Valley. was
Snyder, John
congressman, born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.
Snyder, Martin L
lawyer, was born April 3, 1858, near Sunbury, Pa. He attended the university of Selin's Grove, Pa.; then took a scientific course at the State Normal school at Bloomsburg, Pa., finishing his education at the Princeton college of New Jersey. For several years he was connected with the Augusta bank of his native city, and is now a prominent attorney and real estate dealer.
Snyder, Oliver P
state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1833, in Missouri. He was a member of the general assembly of Arkansas in 1864 and 1865; and was elected a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1867. He was a presidential elector in 1868; was elected a member of the state senate for four years; and was appointed one of the three commissioners to revise and rearrange the statutes of Arkansas. He was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-second and forty-third congresses; and in 1875 was appointed postmaster of Pine Bluff, Ark.
Snyder, Simon
state senator, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 5, 1759, in Lancaster, Pa. He was several years speaker of the house of representatives of Pennsylvania; and in 1818 was a member of the state senate. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1817. He died Nov. 9, 1819, in Selin's Grove, Pa.
Snyder, William Henry
artist, was born Feb. 28, 1830, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He studied in Paris; has attained prominence as a painter; and is curator of the Brooklyn Art school.
Snyder, William Henry
lawyer, legislator, was born June 29, 1858, in Belleville, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, and attended Washington university of St. Louis, Mo. He is an able lawyer of Belleville, Ill.; has been city attorney; served with distinction as a member of the house of representatives of the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth Illinois general assemblies. He is now master in chancery of his county; secretary of the board of trustees of the Illinois Historical library; and is prominent in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Soley, James Russell
educator, author, was born Oct. 1, 1850, in Roxbury, Mass. He is an educator, professor at the Naval academy in 1871-82, and lecturer on international law at Newport Naval college from 1885. He is the author of The Rescue of Greeley; Foreign Systems of Education; The Blockade and the Cruisers; The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes; History of the Naval Academy; and The Sailor Boys of '61.
Sollers, Augustus R
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was elected a representative in congress from his native state from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1853 to 1855. He was a presidential elector in 1856.