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Snider, Denton Jaques – Snow, William W

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.

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, 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, 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, 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.

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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.

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