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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.