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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

HENRY DOUGLAS SNAPP.  There is perhaps no occupation carrying with it a 

greater weight of responsibility than that of railroad engineer.  He who fills 

such a position must necessarily be a man of steady nerve, great courage and 

possessing a mind over which a sudden danger has no power to throw dismay or 

terror. Such a man is the subject of this article, who is one of the most 

popular engineers running out of Joliet.  He is above all an unostentatious 

man, doing his duty faithfully, but quietly, and never showing in his 

character any indications of pride or boastfulness.  Those who once meet him 

are his friends ever afterward, and those who know him best most highly 

appreciate his fine qualities of manhood.  A son of Hon. Henry Snapp, whose 

sketch appears on another page, the subject of this sketch was born in Joliet 

February 28, 1853.  His education was obtained in the public schools.  At the 

age of sixteen he began railroading, for his tastes ran in that direction, and 

he no desire to take the college course planned for him by his parents.   He 

entered the employ of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company as a fireman.  

After two years with that company he took a similar position on the Rock 

Island road.  After some five years as fireman he was given an engine on the 

Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line, now the Monon route, and since then has been 

on different roads.  Strict attention to his work has been his watchword and 

his high standing as an engineer testifies to his fidelity to duty.  The 

marriage of Mr. Snapp took place October 10, 1877, and united him with Miss 

Frances Hill, who was born in New York state, but at two years of age was 

brought to joliet by her parents, Alva and Margaret (Banta) Hill.  Her father, 

who followed the shoemaker's trade in Joliet, continued to reside in this city 

until his death, which resulted in an accident on a railroad excursion on the 

4th of July, 1874.  Mr. and Mrs. Snapp are the parents of two sons, Henry 

Alvin, who was born June 5, 1886; and Robert Douglas, born September 12, 1888.

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Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900
 

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