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 SNELLING

SNOW

lated, edited and adapted Bertillon's "Signaletic Instructions" (ISyC)). and contributed extensively to periodical literature.

SNELLINO, Josiah, soldier, w;\s born in Boston, Mass., in ITSJ. He joined the 4th infantry in May, 1S08. a3 lieutenant, and took part in the war with Tecuniseh. being engaged in the battles of Tippecanoe, Nov. 7, 1811, and Browns- town, Aug. 9, 1SI2, being brevetted major for gal- lantry at Brownstown. He became a-ssistant in siKVtor-general. Ajjril 2.j, 1813; lieutenant-colonel of 4th ritle-i, Feb. 21, 1814; inspector-general with the rank of colonel, April 12, 1814; lieuten- ant-colonel of Gth infantry in 181.1, and colonel, June 1, 1819, and took part in the battles of Lundy\s Lane. Ciiippewa. and Fort Erie. He was married to Abigail, daugliter of Colonel Thomas Hunt. When Detroit surrendered. Siielling re- fused to raise a white flag, and while being marched as a prisoner througli Montreal, refused to take off his hat to the monument of Lord Nelson. He was appointed colonel of 5th in- fantry. June 1, 1819. and sent to Montana. He built Fort St. Anthony at the junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers in 1824, and the name of the fort was changed by General Scott, to Fort Snelling. He was principal witness against General Hull, at that ofl!icer's trial for cowardice in 1814. He is the autiior of: Remarks on Gen. William Hull's Memoirs of the Campaign of the Xorthwestern Army (1825). Of his sons, William Joseph became a prominent journalist, and was editor of the Boston Herald, 1843-48, and Henry Hunt edited the Cornwall, N.Y., Re- Jh'ctor. 1871-87; the New York Photographic Art Journal, 1851-.53. and the Neio York Photographic and Fine Art Journal. 1854-60. Josiah Snelling died in Wasliiiigton, D.C., Aug. 20, 1828.

SNIDER, Denton Jaques, lecturer and author, was born at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1841; son of John R. and Catherine (Prather) Snider; grandson of John and Eva Snider, and of Samuel and Sarah Prather. He was graduated from Oberlin college in 1802; engaged in teaching for a while and later became a public lecturer. He wa.s married in August, 18G7, to Mary Krug. He is the author of: Commentaries on Literary Bibles (9 vols.. 1877-93); Walk in Hellas (1882); Tlie Freeburgers (1889); World's Fair Studies (1895); Commentaries on FroebeVs Play-Songs (1895): Psychology and the Psychosis (WM); The Will and Its Work (1899): The Psychology of FroebeVs Play-Gifts (1900); The Life of Frederick Froebel (1900j; Social Institutions (1001); The State (1902); Ancient European Philosophy (1903); and in verse: Delphic Days (1878); Agamem- non's Daughter (1885); Prorsus Retrorsus (1890); Homer in Chios (1891); Johnny Appleseed'a Rhymes (1894).

SNOW, Francis Huntln^on, educator, was burn in Fitcliburg, i^la.ss., June 29, 1840; son of Benjamin and Mary B. (Boulelle) Snow; grand- son of David (a .soldier in the war of 1812) and RuthB. (Huntington) Boutelle, and a descendant of Ricliard Snow, who settled in Woburn, Mass., 1645, and of Judge Jabez William Huntington (q.v.). He was graduated from Williams col- lege, A.B., 1802, A.M., 1865, and from Andover Theological seminary, 1860, meanwhile acting as principal of the Fitchburg high school. 1862-63. He was associated with the University of Kansas from its establishment, holding the chair of mathematics and natural history, 1866-70, and that of natural history, 1870-89, and also acting as pastor in Kanwaka. Kan., 1866-67, and at Wakarusa, Kan., 1866-68. He was acting presi- dent of the faculty of the University, 1889-90, and in the latter year became chancellor and pro- fessor of entomology and organic evolution, posi- tions he still held in 1903. He was married, July 8, 1808. to Jane Appleton, daughter of John Aiken of Andover, Mass., and granddaughter of the Rev. Jesse Appleton (q,v.), president of Bowdoin college, 1809-19. He received the honorary de- gree of Ph.D. from Williams, 1881, and that of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey (Prince- ton university), in 1890. The Snow Hall of Natural History, named in his honor, and ded- icated by the legislature to the University of Kansas, in 1886, contains valuable entomological collections made by Chancellor Snow. His in- vestigations in economic entomology include the discovery of an artificial application of fungus diseases to the destruction of chinch bugs in wheat fields, an experiment which proved of great practical value to the state of Kansas. He was elected a member of the American Ornitho- logical union, and of the New York Entomolog- ical society.

SNOW, Lorenzo, Mormon leader, was born in Mantua, Portage county, Ohio, April 3, 1819; son of Oliver and Rosetta Leonora (Pettibone) Snow. He was educated in the common schools of Ravenna, Ohio, and was a student at Oberlin college, Ohio, but was not gi'aduated. He be- came a Mormon convert through the influence of Joseph Smith (q.v.), in 1836; was ordained an elder, 1837, and served as a missionary in the United States, 1837-40, and in Great Britain, 1840. Returning to the United States he organ- ized and became captain of the Nauvoo legion, a Mormon military company, in Hancock county, 111., and conducted the Nauvoo school. He wa* active in the presidential campaign of Joseph Smith in 1844, and was a pioneer in the west- ward movement of the Mormons, reaching Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1848. He was ordained one of the twelve apostles, Feb. 12, 1849, and in the