Baptized at St. Leonard's parish Shoreditch, Middlesex, England as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Monks, and there they were married. By occupation Thomas P. Snow was a manufacturer of boots and shoes and for some years he worked as a journeyman in the land of his nativity. In the year 1828 he sailed for the United States aboard the ship Sampson and after a somewhat protracted voyage finally reached the port of New Orleans, where he soon secured remunerative employment at his trade. After sometime spent in that city he proceeded northward as far as Shelbyville, Kentucky, where he carried on a lucrative business for several years, and then went to Freeport, Indiana thence in 1850 to Greenfield. After working at his chosen calling for several years, he embarked in selling books and notions and was thus engaged with a reasonable degree of success until his death, which occurred in 1870. His wife survived him twelve years, dying at Caldwell, Kansas, in 1882.
Thomas P. Snow was a loyal citizen of his adopted country and became a potential factor in the commercial interest of Greenfield and Hancock County. His residence of forty-seven years in the United States enabled him to become thoroughly familiar with American social customs and business methods and as a man and citizen none stood higher in the esteem of the various communities in which he lived. Politically he espoused the principles of the Republican party, which he earnestly supported till his death; as a worker in the Presbyterian church and Sabbath school he exercised a wholesome influence in behalf of religious and benevolent enterprise and everything calculated to improve the moral status of his fellow men or advance the standard of living met his earnest and unqualified approval. He organized and taught the first colored Sabbath school and ever showed deep interest in the old slaves. Thomas P. and Mary Ann Snow reared a family seven children, whose names in order of birth are as follows: William S., a soldier in the late Civil War, member of the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and now deceased; Charles, who is engaged in real estate and loan business in Los Angeles, California; Henry, the subject of this review: Nathaniel, who was a private in the Eighteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry during the great Rebellion, died in 1864, just after his discharge; Agnes, wife of Richard Austin, of Unionville, Missouri; Anna and John,, the last two deceased.
From Hancock Historical Society "Biographical Memoirs of Hancock County" by B.F. Bowers, Publisher, Logansport, Indiana, 1902, Pages 350-353.
Thomas P. Snow was a loyal citizen of his adopted country and became a potential factor in the commercial interest of Greenfield and Hancock County. His residence of forty-seven years in the United States enabled him to become thoroughly familiar with American social customs and business methods and as a man and citizen none stood higher in the esteem of the various communities in which he lived. Politically he espoused the principles of the Republican party, which he earnestly supported till his death; as a worker in the Presbyterian church and Sabbath school he exercised a wholesome influence in behalf of religious and benevolent enterprise and everything calculated to improve the moral status of his fellow men or advance the standard of living met his earnest and unqualified approval. He organized and taught the first colored Sabbath school and ever showed deep interest in the old slaves. Thomas P. and Mary Ann Snow reared a family seven children, whose names in order of birth are as follows: William S., a soldier in the late Civil War, member of the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and now deceased; Charles, who is engaged in real estate and loan business in Los Angeles, California; Henry, the subject of this review: Nathaniel, who was a private in the Eighteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry during the great Rebellion, died in 1864, just after his discharge; Agnes, wife of Richard Austin, of Unionville, Missouri; Anna and John,, the last two deceased.
From Hancock Historical Society "Biographical Memoirs of Hancock County" by B.F. Bowers, Publisher, Logansport, Indiana, 1902, Pages 350-353.
Baptized at St. Leonard's parish Shoreditch, Middlesex, England as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Monks, and there they were married. By occupation Thomas P. Snow was a manufacturer of boots and shoes and for some years he worked as a journeyman in the land of his nativity. In the year 1828 he sailed for the United States aboard the ship Sampson and after a somewhat protracted voyage finally reached the port of New Orleans, where he soon secured remunerative employment at his trade. After sometime spent in that city he proceeded northward as far as Shelbyville, Kentucky, where he carried on a lucrative business for several years, and then went to Freeport, Indiana thence in 1850 to Greenfield. After working at his chosen calling for several years, he embarked in selling books and notions and was thus engaged with a reasonable degree of success until his death, which occurred in 1870. His wife survived him twelve years, dying at Caldwell, Kansas, in 1882.
Thomas P. Snow was a loyal citizen of his adopted country and became a potential factor in the commercial interest of Greenfield and Hancock County. His residence of forty-seven years in the United States enabled him to become thoroughly familiar with American social customs and business methods and as a man and citizen none stood higher in the esteem of the various communities in which he lived. Politically he espoused the principles of the Republican party, which he earnestly supported till his death; as a worker in the Presbyterian church and Sabbath school he exercised a wholesome influence in behalf of religious and benevolent enterprise and everything calculated to improve the moral status of his fellow men or advance the standard of living met his earnest and unqualified approval. He organized and taught the first colored Sabbath school and ever showed deep interest in the old slaves. Thomas P. and Mary Ann Snow reared a family seven children, whose names in order of birth are as follows: William S., a soldier in the late Civil War, member of the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and now deceased; Charles, who is engaged in real estate and loan business in Los Angeles, California; Henry, the subject of this review: Nathaniel, who was a private in the Eighteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry during the great Rebellion, died in 1864, just after his discharge; Agnes, wife of Richard Austin, of Unionville, Missouri; Anna and John,, the last two deceased.
From Hancock Historical Society "Biographical Memoirs of Hancock County" by B.F. Bowers, Publisher, Logansport, Indiana, 1902, Pages 350-353.
Thomas P. Snow was a loyal citizen of his adopted country and became a potential factor in the commercial interest of Greenfield and Hancock County. His residence of forty-seven years in the United States enabled him to become thoroughly familiar with American social customs and business methods and as a man and citizen none stood higher in the esteem of the various communities in which he lived. Politically he espoused the principles of the Republican party, which he earnestly supported till his death; as a worker in the Presbyterian church and Sabbath school he exercised a wholesome influence in behalf of religious and benevolent enterprise and everything calculated to improve the moral status of his fellow men or advance the standard of living met his earnest and unqualified approval. He organized and taught the first colored Sabbath school and ever showed deep interest in the old slaves. Thomas P. and Mary Ann Snow reared a family seven children, whose names in order of birth are as follows: William S., a soldier in the late Civil War, member of the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and now deceased; Charles, who is engaged in real estate and loan business in Los Angeles, California; Henry, the subject of this review: Nathaniel, who was a private in the Eighteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry during the great Rebellion, died in 1864, just after his discharge; Agnes, wife of Richard Austin, of Unionville, Missouri; Anna and John,, the last two deceased.
From Hancock Historical Society "Biographical Memoirs of Hancock County" by B.F. Bowers, Publisher, Logansport, Indiana, 1902, Pages 350-353.
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