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Rh in 1861, and as such was in the battles of Boone- ville, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, and Lexington, llr was commissioned from Missouri to negotiate a military convention with tlir ( 'onfederate states in October, 1861, became assistant adjutant-general in I he Confederate army, served with Price in Ar- kansas, Missouri, and Mississippi, and was elected to the Confederate congress by Missouri soldiers in May. 1S64. He removed to New York in 1865, va- managing editor of the "Daily News" in 1865-'6, and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1866. He had published the first volume of a projected history of the war in the trans-Missis- sippi department, entitled "The Fight for Mis- souri " (New York, 1886).

SNEED, John Louis Taylor, jurist, b. in Ra- leigh, N. C., 12 May, 1820. He was educated at Oxford male academy, N. C., removed to Tennes- see, became a member of the legislature in 1845, and was captain of a Tennessee company in the Mexican war in 1846-'7. He was attorney-general of the Memphis judicial district in 1851, attorney- general of the state of Tennessee in 1854-'9, and in 1861 was commissioned brigadier-general of the provisional army of the state of Tennessee. He was judge of the state supreme court in 1870-'8, and of the court of arbitration in 1879. presidential elector on the Hancock ticket in 1880. and judge of the state court of referees in 1883-'4. 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-'9" (Nashville).

SNELL, Thomas, clergyman, b. in Cummins- ton. Mass., 21 Nov., 1774: d. in North Brookfleld, Mass.. 4 May, 1862. After graduation at Dart- mouth in 1795 he taught in Haverhill for a year, was licensed to preach by the Tolland association on 3 Oct., 1795, and was ordained pastor of the 2d Congregational church. North Brookfield, Mass., on 27 June, 1798, holding this charge until his death. Amherst gave him the degree of D. D. in 1828. Twenty-four of his discourses were pub- lished, among which were " Sermons on the Com- pletion of the 40th Year of his Ministry," with a brief history of the town (Brookfield, 1838); "Ser- mon on the Completion of the 50th Year of his Ordination" (1848); "Discourse, containing an Historical Sketch of North Brookfield" (1850); and " Historical Sketch of the 1st Congregational Church, North Brookfield " (1852).

SNELLING, Josiah, soldier, b. in Boston, Mass., in 1782; d. in Washington, D. C., 20 Aug., 182s. He joined a rifle company at the first call for troops for the war with Tecumseh, was ap- pointed lieutenant in the 4th infantry in 1808, be- came a captain in June, 1809, served with credit at Tippecanoe, 7 Nov., 1811, and was brevetted major for services at Brownstown, 9 Aug., 1812. He became assistant inspector-general on 25 April, , lieutenant-colonel of the 4th rifles on 21 Feb., , inspector-general with the rank of colonel, 12 April, 1814, lieutenant-colonel of the 6th infant- ry in 1815. and colonel of the 5th infantry on 1 June, 1819. He participated in the battles of Lundy's Lane, Chippewa, and Fort Erie, and on his march to Detroit was captured by a force of British and Indians that was superior to his own. He escaped, with the loss of three or four men, to Fort Shelby, Detroit, where he became betrothed to Abigail, 'daughter of Col. Thomas Hunt. On the night that had been appointed for his mar- riage he was sent by Gen. William Hull with an inadequate detachment to check the landing of the British at Spring Well. On leaving the fort, he said to Gen. Hull : " If I drive the Redcoats back, may I return and be married?" Gen. Hull gave his consent, and the wedding took place on the same evening. At the surrender of Detroit he re- fused tn raise the white flag. He was taken as a pris- oner to Montreal, and while bring marched through the streets was or- drrnl by a British officer to take off his hat to Nelson's monument. This he refused to do in spite of the efforts of the soldiers to remove it. and final- ly Gen. Isaac Brock ordered them to " respect the scru- plesof abraveman." He was appointed colonel of the 5th infantry on 1 June, 1819, was ordered to Council Bluffs, Mo., and thence to the confluence of the Mississippi and the Minnesota rivers. The location of the fort was re- moved to the present site of Fort Snelling. which he completed in 1824, after succeeding to the com- mand. He gave it the name of Fort St. Anthony, which was changed by Gen. Winfield Scott in honor of its builder and commander. Maj. Snelling al- ways carried the sword of Charles Carroll of Carroll- ton, which had been presented to him. He was a witness against Gen. William Hull at the hittrr's trial, and wrote "Remarks on Gen. William Hull's Memoirs of the Campaign of the Northwestern Army, 1812" (Detroit, 1825). His son, William Joseph, journalist, b. in Boston, Mass., 26 Dec., 1804; d. in Chelsea. Mass., 24 Dec., 1848, was edu- cated at the U. S. military academy, became a fur- trapper in Missouri, and subsequently was em- ployed at the Galena lead-mines. About 1828 he became connected with several journals, and for a few years before his death he was editor of the Bos- ton " Herald." He contributed to periodicals, and published " The Polar Regions of the Western Con- tinent Explored" (Boston, 1831), and "Truth, a New- Year's Gift for Scribblers: a Satirical Poem" (1832). He wrote for William Apes, the Pequod Indian preacher, a small book on " Indian Nullifi- cation " (1835). Another son, Henry Hunt, edi- tor, b. in Plattsburg, N. Y., 8 Nov.. 1817, was taken by his father to Council Bluffs, Mo., in infancy, and in early life suffered many hardships. He was educated at a military academy in Georgetown, D. C., and in Detroit, after which he entered busi- ness, and for a time was librarian of the New York lyceum. Owing to impaired health, he removed to the country, and settling in Cornwall, N. Y.. in 1871, published and edited until 1887 the "Reflec- tor of Cornwall," which he relinquished owing to blindness. He devoted much time to photography, and edited " The Photographic Art Journal " in New York in 1851-'3, and from 1854 till I860 the " Photographic and Fine Art Journal." He is the author of " History and Practice of Photography " (New York, 1849), and has also published a " Dic- tionary of the Photographic Art" (1853).

SNETHEN, Nicholas, clergyman, b. in Fresh Pond (now Glen Cove), Long "island, N. Y., 15 Nov., 1769 ; d. in Princeton, Ind., 30 May, 1845. His youth was spent on the farm of his father, Barak, who had served in the British army at the