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602 capture of Montreal in 1760. The son entered the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1794, travelled and preached for four years in New England and the south, and actively favored the limitation of the episcopal prerogative. His plan for a delegated general conference was adopted in 1808. He also advocated a preachers' anti-slavery tract society, and was active against the future admission of any slave-holder into the church. Afterward he travelled as private secre- tary to Bishop Francis Asbury, who called Mr. Snethen his " silver trumpet." In 1804-'6 he was stationed in New York, whence he removed to his farm in Frederick county, Md. By his marriage he became the holder of slaves, whom he emanci- pated as soon as the law would permit. From 1809 till 1814 he was again an itinerant. While he was in Georgetown, D. C., he was elected chap- lain to the U. S. house of representatives. He was the first to introduce camp-meetings into New York and Maryland, and was a leader of a large meeting on Wye river, Md., in 1809. In 1821 he began to write in favor of lay representation. The refusal of this right by the general conference in 1828, and the expulsion from the church of many of its advocates, led to the formation of the Meth- odist Protestant church, in which he bore an active part, and in connection with which he travelled ami preached after his removal to Indiana in 1829, till shortly before his death. He died on his way to become president of the Snethen school for young clergymen in Iowa City. Mr. Snethen be- came an editor with the Rev. Asa Shinn of the " Methodist Protestant " in 1834, contributed to periodicals, and published " Lectures on Preach- ing the Gospel " (1822) : " Essays on Lay Represen- tation" (1835); and "Lectures on Biblical Sub- jects" (1836). His son, Worthington, edited a volume of his sermons (1846).

SNIDER, Deiiton Jaques, author, b. in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, 9 Jan., 1841. After graduation at Oberlin in 1802, he engaged in teaching, and is now (1898) a lecturer on general literature. He is the author of " A System of Shakespeare's Dramas " (St. Louis, 1877) ; " Delphic Days " ( issoi : " A Walk in Hellas " (Boston, 1882) ; " Agamemnon's Daugh- ter" (1885); "Epigrammatic Voyage" (1886); "Commentary on Goethe's 'Faust'" (1880); and " Commentary on Shakespeare's Tragedies " (1887).

SNODURASS, William Dayis, clergyman, b. in West Hanover, Pa., 30 June, 1790 ; d. in Goshen, N. Y., 28 May, 1885. He was the son of the Rev. Benjamin Snodgrass, who from 1784 until his death in 1846 was pastor of the Presbyterian church in West Hanover. After graduation at Washington college, Pa., in 1815. and at Prince- ton theological seminary in 1818, he held Presby- terian pastorates in the south till 1823, when he was called to New York city. From 1834 till 1844 he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Troy, N. Y., after which he established the Fifteenth street church in New York city, serving as its pastor in 1846-'9. From 1849 until his death he was pastor in Goshen, N. Y. In 1830 he became a director of Princeton theological seminary, and he was president of its board of trustees in 1808. Columbia gave him the degree of D. D. in 1830. He published a discourse on the death of Rev. John M. Mason (New York, 1830) ; " Perfectionism, Lectures on Apostolic Succession " (1844) ; and sev- eral other discourses.

'''SNOW. Caleb Hopkins''', physician, b. in Bos- ton, Mass., 1 April, 1790 : d. there. 6 July, 1835. He was the son of Prince Snow, who for several years was deputy-sheriff of Suffolk county. After graduation at Brown in 1813 he was librarian there in 1814-'18, received his medical degree from that university in 1821, and acquired a large prac- tice in his native city. He was the author of a " History of Boston, with Some Account of its Environs " (Boston, 1825), and a " Geography of Boston and Adjacent Towns " (1830).

SNOW, Marshall Solomon, educator, b. in Hyannis, Mass., 17 Aug., 1842. He was graduated at Harvard in 1865, in 1865-'6 was sub-master of high-schools in Worcester, Mass., in 1866-'7 prin- cipal of a high-school in Nashville, Tenn., in 1807-'8 professor of mathematics in the University of Nashville, in 1868-'70 professor of Latin and principal of Montgomery Bell academy in that university, in 1870-'4 professor of belles-lettres in Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., and since 1874 has occupied the chair of history in that in- stitution. He was appointed registrar in 1871, dean of the faculty in 1877, and since January, 1887, has been acting chancellor of the university. Besides articles upon historical subjects, he has pub- lished an excellent monograph upon the " City Gov- ernment of St. Louis " in the 5th series of " Johns Hopkins University Studies" (Baltimore, 1887).

SNOW, William Dunham, lawyer, b. in Web- ster, Worcester co., Mass., 2 Feb., 1832. He set- tled in Rochester, N. Y., where he published " The Tribune" in 1852-'4. Afterward he removed to Arkansas, was a member of the Constitutional con- vention in 1863 that made Arkansas a free state, and was elected U. S. senator in 1864 under the proclamation of President Johnson, but was not admitted to a seat. He was largely instrumental in raising a brigade of Arkansas troops for the U. S. army in 1865, and declined the commission of brigadier-general. Since his graduation at Columbia law-school in 1876 he has practised in New York city and in the Federal courts. He has invented a successful carburettor, a gas -regu- lator, a thermostatic apparatus for the mainte- nance of equal heat for furnaces and steam appara- tus, and a system for fac-simile telegraphy. Mr. Snow is the author of several anti-slavery poems, and has contributed to magazines.

SNOW, William Parker. English explorer, b. in Poole, 27 Nov., 1817; d. 12 March, 1895. Capt. Snow endeavored to enlist interest in behalf of an expedition to search for the companions of Sir John Franklin. He had published " Voyage of the ' Prince Albert ' in Search of Sir John Franklin, a Narrative of K very-Day Life in the Arctic Seas" (London, 1851): "A Two- Years' Cruise off Terra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, and the Seaboard of Patagonia" (2 vols., 1857) ; "Catalogue of the Arctic Collection in the British Museum " (1858) ; "The Patagonian Missionary Society" (I*' 1 *': "British Columbia Emigration," etc. (1858); and "Southern Generals" (NVv York, 1866).

SNOWDEN, James Ross, numismatist, b. in Old Chester, Pa., 9 Dec., 1809; d. in Hulmeville, Bucks co., Pa., 21 March, 1878. His great-grandfather, Nathanael Fitz Randolph, served in the Revolutionary war, being known as &ldquo;Fighting Nat,&rdquo; and was presented with a sword by the legislature of New Jersey. He also started the first subscription paper for Princeton college, and gave the ground upon which Nassau hall, the first edifice of that college, was built. This received its name in honor of William III., of the &ldquo;illustrious house of Nassau.&rdquo; It has been twice burned down. His father, Rev. Nathanael Randolph Snowden, was curator of Dickinson college from 1794 till 1827, where the son was educated. Subsequently he studied law, and, settling in Franklin, Pa., was