BIO:  Alexander Snodgrass, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Lower Chanceford Township, Pg 127

ALEXANDER SNODGRASS was born November 9, 1825, in Lower Chanceford, and is a son 
of Joseph and Hannah (Smith) Snodgrass.  His mother was a daughter of John Smith, 
of the same township.  At the age of nine years he went to live with John 
McCleary, at Bridgeton.  He began learning the blacksmith’s trade when seventeen 
years of age, and followed it four years.  At twenty-one he engaged at boating on 
the Susquehanna Canal and continued eighteen years, and then purchased a farm of 
fifty acres in Lower Chanceford, where he now resides.  He later purchased a farm 
of 128 acres in the same township.  Mr. Snodgrass was married, June 26, 1854, to 
Corinna McConkey, daughter of Jesse McConkey, of Peach Bottom Township.  He and 
his wife are members of the Union Chapel of his township.