Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Snell, Joseph L. 1827 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Snell, Joseph L., Ohio, was born in Rennsselaer county, near Troy, in 1827.  
His father was Robert Snell jr., a native of Massachusetts, who came when a 
young man to Rensselaer county, and there married Maria Mykell, a native of 
Troy, and had five children.  Mr. Snell was a millwright by trade.  In 1843 he 
settled on the farm now occupied by the subject of this sketch, and there 
lived and died.  He was a Democrat and a Mason, and was commissioner of 
highways three years.  His death occurred September 8, 1872, and that of his 
wife February 20, 1867.  Robert Snell, grandfather of the subject, was in the 
war of 1812, and is great-grandfather was in the Revolutionary war.  Joseph L. 
Snell was reared and educated in the city of Troy.  At the age of 16 he came 
to Ohio.  October 14, 1849, he married Lana A. De Long of Washington county, 
who bore him three children:  Mary E., Harriet M., and Ruth A.  March 30, 
1858, Mrs. Snell died, and he married Violette Pooler, of Russia, and had by 
her one child, Ella E.  Mr. Snell is a farmer, and also works at the carpenter 
trade.  He is a Democrat and has been highway commissioner one term.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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