Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Snodgrass, David 1815 - 
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   HON. DAVID SNODGRASS, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Mercer County, Penn.,
February 23, 1815. He is a son of Jesse and Jane (Atchison) Snodgrass, natives
of County Donegal, Ireland, and Washington County, Penn., respectively. His
father was born February 1, 1784, emigrated to the United States about 1809, and
settled in Mercer County, Penn., where he was married in 1812, and the same
afternoon was called into the military service, to prevent the British troops
from crossing Lake Erie. He served six months as private and then returned home
and engaged in farming. He lived in Pennsylvania until 1825, when he removed to
Muskingum County, Ohio: thence, in 1846, located in Monroe County, Iowa, where
be followed farming for about ten years and in 1856, he sold his farm and went
to Albia and engaged in merchandising. He died September 8, 1876, aged
ninety-two years. He and his wife belonged to the United Presbyterian Church, of
which he was an active and prominent member. Mrs. Snodgrass died in August,
1862, aged seventy years. Our subject was the second son of a family of eight
children, and was brought up on a farm, and received a common school education.
He helped his father in clearing two farms. He was married in Harrison County,
Ohio, December 20, 1838. to Catharine, daughter of Enoch and Catharine
(Anderson) Philips, a native of Washington County, Penn., born March 24, 1817.
They have five children, four living-Jessie, Alfred P., Park, married to Jennie
Bebout, of Washington County, Penn., and M. Maud, wife of B. Moore, of Kenton.
Otis B. died, aged eight years and six months. In 1845, Mr. Snodgrass came with
his family to Kenton, and resided there until 1864, then came to Buck Township
on his present farm. He was engaged in the boot and shoe trade in Kenton until
1861. He and William Gilmore started the first boot and shoe store in Kenton. In
1851, he was elected to represent Hardin and Wyandot Counties in the Ohio
Legislature, and served one term. He was solicited to be a candidate for a
second term, but positively declined to serve. In 1870, he was elected member of
the Board of County Commissioners, and served one term. In June of 1861, he
enlisted in Company D, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; served as Corporal, and
was discharged in February, 1862, to receive a promotion. In January previous,
he was home on thirty days' furlough, and recruited Company H, of the
Seventy-fourth Regiment, going out as First Lieutenant, serving as such until
the battle of Stone River, when he was promoted to the rank of Captain for
"gallant and meritorious service on the field." He served until April 26, 1864,
when he resigned on account of a wound received at Chickamauga. While in the
Fourth Regiment, he fought at Rich Mountain and Romney, and in the
Seventy-fourth Regiment he was at Stone River, and then Chickamauga, where he
received his wound by an artillery wheel running over his right foot. On his
return home, he took up the occupation of a farmer. He owns 168 acres of land,
most of which has been cleared and improved. He and wife are members of the
United Presbyterian Church. He is, politically, a Republican, and while serving
as County Commissioner was one of the principal instigators of the pike
enterprise, carrying the first pike petition that was circulated in Hardin
County, and where the County Infirmary was being built.

Additional Comments:
Bucks Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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