Toombs County GaArchives Biographies.....Sneed, John L. 1879 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   JOHN L. SNEED. Vidalia, Georgia, includes among its enterprising, progressive
element, a real estate and insurance firm whose members, John L. Sneed and Foy
0. Powell, rank high as leading, up-to-date young men, prominent and active in
business affairs and popular in the social circles of the town.

   While Mr. Powell, as already stated in a personal mention of him on another
page of this work, is a native of Georgia, Mr. Sneed hails from Virginia. It was
at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1879, that John L. Sneed was born, one of a
family of ten children, all still living, of J. L. and Josephine A. (Moore)
Sneed, both natives of the "Old Dominion." He received his education in the
Virginia Military Institute and at the George Washington University, Washington,
D. C., of which latter institution he is a graduate with the class of 1898, and
he is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. After his graduation he was
employed in the engineering department of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and by
the government as sanitary engineer, later, also, as engineer on the
Norfolk-Southern, the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio, and the Georgia & Florida
railroads. Deciding to settle down and establish himself in business, he took up
his residence at Vidalia in the early part of 1910, and has since been
identified with the interests of this place. With Mr. Powell he engaged in a
general real estate, loan, and fire insurance business, placing loans for
eastern capitalists and dealing in real estate both here and elsewhere, at this
writing handling Florida lands. Also he is interested in the Vidalia Furniture
Company, of which J. C. May is manager.

   As showing his popularity, the second year of his residence in Vidalia, Mr.
Sneed was elected to represent the First ward in the city council for a term of
two years. Also he is a director in the Bonded Cotton Warehouse.
   In Masonry Mr. Sneed has advanced to the higher degrees, including those of
the Mystic Shrine, and his religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. He
is unmarried.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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