Adams County IN Archives History - Books .....Chapter VI When It Snowed (Snow Family) 1896
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Book Title: Reminiscences Of Adams, Jay And Randolph Counties

CHAPTER VI.
WHEN IT SNOWED.

    Who hasn't a curiosity to know of the beginning?

    The beginning is the theme of the naturalist, the scientist and the
theologist, alike. In the beginning "the evening and the morning were the first
day." In the beginning of the state, the first settler, the first marriage, the
first birth, the first death, the first church and first school are each and all
items sought out and recorded by the historian. People usually take some
interest in the beginnings, that promote their happiness or contribute to the
record of development and growth of institutions with which they may have been
related. The theme of this sketch shall have referenc [sic] to a few of the
hardy pioneers who heeeded [sic] the timely advice of Horace Greeley, who said:
"Go west, young man; go west and grow up with the country." When this advice was
given, the Mississippi valley was a wilderness, with but a few; trading posts
west of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. But as Kingley says: "Westward, the Empire
takes its way." So with the Snows. When it first snowed is yet an enigma.
Perhaps away back in merry England ere the "War of the oses," or previous to the
time when Henry VIII discovered a "pang of conscience" in living wtih his
deceased brother's wife, Catherine, while the beautiful Anna Boleyn, was in
sight and unmarried.

    We are told that the doubtful things in history are very uncertain; yet, in
the history of Plymouth, written by one of Harvard's "sages," we find that.
"Nicholas, Anthony and William Snow, came over early from England. The two
former brought families; the later was an apprentice and settled in Doxbury.
Anthony was first at Plymouth; then, in 1642, at Marshfield. Nicholas, who came
in the "Ann," in 1623, had a share in the division of the land at Plymouth,
settled in Eastham."

    From the above bit of history we infer that it snowed early in the New
England colonies. The true delineator of New York life in the days of Detrich
Nickerbocker—the inimitable Washington Irving—in his history of the Empire
state, illuminates many ridiculous and peculiar features of the Dutch and names
many customs of interest, but fails to tell us when it first snowed at Auburn.
Buel also omits an account of the first snow squall in St. Louis. Both of these
cities are well represented with the name Snow. At the close of the Revolution
several families of Snows settled in West Moreland County, Pennsylvania, near
the town of Chester. A James Snow there married an Irish lady by the name of
Eleanor Tate, and perhaps as early as 1812, came west to Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
In 1833, or near that date, they settled near Defiance, and in 1837 moved to
Jackon Township, Jay County, Indiana. From that date frequent Snow squalls were
heard in Jay and Adams Counties

    Of James Snow's family there were nine boys and one girl, six of whom lived
to adult age. William moved to Illinios and died in 1883. James B. and Barton B.
last resided in Adams County. The former died in 1876 and the later in 1875. A
gray granite monument in the Bloomfield cemetery—Jay County— marks the resting
place of a majority of the pioneer Snow family. Of James B. Snow's family but he
is married and lives near Geneva, Indiana. His wife was a Miss Mary Vance, the
daughter of one of the pioneers of Adams County. They are the parents of two
little girls—Gracie and Bertha Snow. The wife of Barton B. Snow was Miss Rebecca
H. McDonald, a lady of Scotch-Irish descent, whose parents formerly resided in
Cumberland County, Ohio. Of the nine children born to them but three survive,
Loretta G., Ada V. and John F., the later of whom is married. He married a Miss
Sadie A. Hoskinson, a lady of Virginian ancestry who formerly resided near
Newark, Ohio. They are the parents of two sons, Horace H. and Eral E., who are
respectively nine and thirteen years of age.

    Of James Snow's family two sons, James B. and Barton B., were doctors. The
former graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and the later
from Louisville Medical College, Kentucky.

    Of Barton B. Snow's family—five—two sons and three daughters, grew to
maturity, and all were teachers in the public schools.

    From the American School Board Journal, of Chicago, for April, 1892, we clip
the following sketch:

    "The subject of this sketch, John F. Snow, was born in Portland, Ind., June
17th, 1854. His mother, Rebecca H. McDonald, was of Scotch-Irish parentage.
Burton B. Snow, M. D., his father, was a descendant of Puritan residents of
Boston, Mass. He received his first ideas of education from his mother, who was
a teacher. His early years were devoted to agricultural pursuits and attendance
at the district schools until the age of eighteen, at which time he entered
Ridgeville College. Ill-health and the death of his parents greatly retarded his
educational progress. After ten years devoted to the work of student and teacher
in the various grades, from the district schools to the Normal and high school,
he attained the degree of Bachelor of Science.

    In 1833 he was chosen County Superintendent of Adams. County, Ind., and has
since been four times re-elected to the same position. As member of the Indiana
County Superintendent's Association he has served on various educational
committees, and in 1890 was chosen president of the Association.

    In politices [sic] he is a Democrat, and has at various times represented
his party in county and state conventions.

    Being possessed of ample energy and indomitable willpower, his undertakings
are usually crowned with a merited degree of success."


Additional Comments:
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Reminiscences of Adams, Jay and Randolph Counties

Compiled by Martha C. M. Lynch

Ft. Wayne, IN: Lipes, Nelson & Singmaster

Circa 1896

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