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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

SAMUEL N. SNODDY.

   It is the progressive, wide-awake man of affairs who makes the real history
of a community. His influence as a potential factor in the body politic is
difficult to estimate. The example which he furnishes of patient purpose and
steadfast integrity illustrates what every man may accomplish. There is always
satisfaction in referring, even in a casual way, to his achievements. A man of
this type is Samuel N. Snoddy, a retired farmer of Deer Creek township, Carroll
county. Not only does he own a fine farm in Deer Creek township but also a large
tract of land in Wisconsin.

   Mr. Snoddy was born on September 14, 1840, near Dayton, in Tippecanoe county,
Indiana. He is the son of William J. and Mary (Shrader) Snoddy, the former of
whom was born in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, in 1793, and who died on March 10,
1865. The latter was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in December,
1801, and died in April, 1889, at the age of eighty-eight years. They were
married in Butler county, Ohio, in 1827, and had six children, three of whom are
living. The children, in the order of their birth, are Amanda, Matthew, William,
Alfred Nevin, Luellewellyn Olive and Samuel N. Amanda, who died in Remington,
Jasper county, Indiana, in 1886, was the wife of George Major, who died in 1902,
and by whom she had eight children. Matthew died in 1846. William passed away at
West Lafayette on May 29, 1912, in his eightieth year. Alfred Nevin, born on
April 21, 1834, lives on the old homestead in Tippecanoe county. The land has
been in the Snoddy family ever since it was entered from the government, in
1827. Luellewellyn Olive, who was born in August, 1836, and who served four
years in the army, having been appointed a captain of a colored company shortly
after his enlistment, lives in Kansas. Samuel N. is the subject of this sketch.

   William J. and Mary (Shrader) Snoddy removed to Tippecanoe county after their
marriage, settling on the farm where both died. William J. Snoddy was one of the
pioneer settlers of Tippecanoe county. He was the son of John Snoddy, a native
of Ireland, who settled in Pennsylvania after coming to America. Mary (Shrader)
Snoddy's parents were natives of Germany, who settled at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

   Samuel W. Snoddy was educated in the district schools of this section and
attended the high school at Dayton. He lived at home with his parents until
January 1, 1865, when he was married in Rossville, Clinton county, Indiana, to
Rosana McLurg, a daughter of John and Jennie (Robinson) McLurg. Mrs. Snoddy's
parents were of Scotch descent, but were natives of Knox county, Ohio. They had
eight children, of whom five, Amanda, Belle, Mary, Jennie and Mrs. Snoddy are
deceased. Josephine lives in California; James also lives in California; John
lives in Frankford, Clinton county, Indiana. Mrs. Snoddy's parents lived and
died in Ohio.

   By his marriage to Rosana McLurg, Mr. Snoddy had four children, three
daughters and one son, all of whom are living. Flora lives at home, as do also
Belle and Mary; Edwin lives in Chicago.

   In 1905 Mr. Snoddy retired from active labor. He owns one hundred and sixty
acres of well-improved land, which he purchased in the spring of 1889, since
which time he has lived in this county. He also owns six hundred and forty acres
of land in Wisconsin, and his daughter owns forty acres in California. For some
time after his marriage, Mr. Snoddy lived in Kokomo and then moved to a farm in
Jasper county, where he remained for fifteen years. Later he lived near
Frankfort, Indiana, for six years and then in Benton county for about one year
and one-half. He moved to Carroll county in 1889. Mrs. Samuel N. Snoddy, who was
a member of the Presbyterian church, died on April 7, 1913.

   The venerable Samuel N. Snoddy is a stanch Democrat. The Snoddy family are
all members of the Presbyterian church and have always been active in religious
work.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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