~ZERUBBABEL SNOW~
DEATH OBITUARY
21 MARCH 1809 ~ 27 SEPTEMBER 1888
THE PRESENT YEAR WILL BE MEMORABLE IN RESPECT TO THE NUMBER OF NOTED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH WHO HAVE DEPARTED THIS LIFE SINCE IT OPENED, YESTERDAY WE BRIEFLY ANNOUNCED THE DEATH OF JUDGE ZERUBBABEL SNOW AT HIS HOME IN THE CITY, AND TODAY, AS TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY, SO WELL WORTHY TO BE TREASURED, WE APPEND A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS LONG LIFE.
JUDGE SNOW WAS BORN IN ST. JOHNSBURY, CALEDONIA CO. VT. 21 MARCH 1809, HIS FATHER WAS A FARMER,BUT THE LAND HE TITLED WAS POOR, HIS FAMILY WAS LARGE, AND RIGID ECONOMY AND UNFLAGGING INDUSTRY WERE REQURIED ON THE PART OF BOTH PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN ORDER THAT WHAT MIGHT BE AVOIDED AND RESPECTABILITY MAINTAINED. IN THAT REGION DURING THE PERIOD OF JUDGE SNOW'S BOY HOOD. EDUCATION FACILITIES WERE EXTREMELY MEAGER AND BOOKS SCARCE. THE PRIMITIVE VILLAGE SCHOOLS, IN SESSION ONLY A FEW WEEKS DURING THE YEAR,AFFORDED HIM ALL THE MEANS HE HAD, ASIDE FROM PERSONAL EFFORT, TO OBTAIN AN EDUCATION; YET AT THE AGE OF 18 HE BECAME A SCHOOL TEACHER HIMSELF, AND TAUGHT SEVERAL TERMS IN VERMONT AND CANADA.
IN THE SPRING OF 1832 ELDER LYMAN E. JOHNSON AND ORSON PRATT INTRODUCTED THE FULLNESS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ST. JOHNSBURY, WHICH HE EMBRACED SOON AFTER FIRST HEARING IT. IT WAS NOT A THOUGHTLESS STEP WHICH HE TOOK IN SO DOING, AS HIS MIND FOR YEARS DWELT MORE OR LESS UPON RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS, WHICH WERE CONSTANTLY BEING DISCUSSED IN THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE WAS REARED. LIFE HAD ALSO STUDIED DEEPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM, TOUGH A MAN, POSSED A MIND WELL MATURED BY THOUGHT, RESEARCH, AND REFLECTIONS.
IN JUNE 1832 HE WAS CHOSEN BY THE BRANCH AT ST. JOHNBURG TO GO TO OHIO, WHERE HE ARRIVED IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH. HERE HE MEET AND BECAME WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JOSEPH THE SEER AND OTHER PROMINENT BRETHREN. HE WAS IN THE COMPANY WITH THE SEER DAILY WHILE THE LATTER WAS ENGAGED IN TRANSLATING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND HEARD HIM TRANSLATE THE WHOLE BOOK OF GENESIS, HE RETURNED TO VERMONT AND RESUMED SCHOOL TEACHING BUT IN 1834 CAME WITH HIS WIFE TO KIRKLAND, ARRIVING ONE DAY AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF ZION'S CAMP. LEAVING HIS FAMILY HE TOOK OVER THE CAMP, AND WAS CHOSEN COMMISSARY. HE PREFORMED WITH DUTIES OF THAT RESPONSIBLE POSITION WITH FIDELITY, ON THE MARCH TO MISSOURI, SOON AFTER REACHING THAT STATE HE RETURNED TO KIRKLND AND A FEW DAYS AFTER JOINING HIS FAMLY WENT TO CANADA WITH THEM WHERE HE REMAINED SEVERAL MONTHS, LABORING AS A MISSIONARY. HE RETURNED TO KIRKLAND IN THE SPRING OF 1835 AND STARED A MISSION THOUGH PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK IN TO CANADA WEST, BUT RETURNED TO KIRKLAND AGAIN IN TIME TO BE PRESENT AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.HE REMAINED IN KIKLAND SOME YEARS, TAUGHT SCHOOL ENGAGED IN BUSINESS AND FAILED, AND PAID HIS DEBTS IN FULL: STUDIED LAW AND IN OCTOBER 1839 WAS ADMITTED TO THE BAR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO. IN THE SPRING OF 1841 JUDGE SNOW'S WIFE SUSEN S. DIED SOON AFTER GIVING BITH TO A DAUGHTER, AND SUBSEQUENTY MARRIED MARY AUGUSTA HAWKINS.
IN 1850 WHILE STILL RESIDING IN OHIO HE APPLIED FOR JUDGESHIP IN UTAH, RECEIVED FROM PRESIDENT FILLMORE THE APPOINTMENT OF ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. HE REACHED UTAH IN THE SPRING OF 1852, ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE, AT THE TIME WHEN SOME FRICTION EXCITED BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT AND THE PEOPLE, IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH HE LABORED AS A PEACEMAKER. HE RETAINED HIS OFFICE UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THE TERM IN 1851 AND LEFT THE STAMP OF HIS INDIVIDUALITY UPON THE EARL JURISPRUDENCE OF THE TERRITORY.
ABOUT JUNE OF 1856 HE WENT ON A MISSION TO AUSTRALIA AND RETURNED IN DECEMBER OF 1858. IN 1859 HE BECAME PROBATE JUDGE OF IRON COUNTY, AND IN 1863 OF UTAH COUNTY. IN THE SPRING OF 1865 HE WAS APPOINTED PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF SALT LAKE COUNTY, IN 1876 HE WAS ELECTED TO THE SAME OFFICE TO WHICH HE WAS RE-ELECTED AT EACH ELECTION UNTIL 1884. HE HELD THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR TWO MORE TERMS, HE WAS ALSO CITY ATTORNEY FOR SALT LAKE CITY AND DURING HIS INCUMBENCY OF THE OFFICE THE CORPORATIO HAD SOME SEVERE LEGAL CONTEESTS WITH LIQUOR DEALERS.
IN 1870 JUDGE SNOW AIDED IN CODIFYING THE LAWS OF THE TERRITORY, A GEAT AND INPORTANT LABOR, IN FACT HE HAD BEEN ULTIMATLY ASSOCIATED LEGAL HISTORY AND JOURNALISM OF THE TERRITORY SENSE THE ORGANIZATION AND AS JUDGE AND LEGAL COUNCILOR HE HAS RENDERED SEVICES TO THIS COMMON WEALTH OF INESTIMABLE VALUE, AND WHICH LEISURE THE PERPETUITY OF HIS NANE AS A PIONEER AND FOUNDER OF ITS JUDICIARY.
JUDGE SNOW INTEGRITY WAS WITH OUT A BLEMISH AND HIS OPENNESS WAS NEVER IMPEACHED. HE WAS ENDOWED BY NATURE WITH A MIND EMINENTLY JUDICIAL AND PROFOUND. HIS MANNER WAS DIGNIFIED, AND HIS HONESTY RUGGED AND INVULNERABLE AND HIS OOSTERITY MAY AS WELL TAKE PRIDE IN THE SUCCESS HE HAS MADE WITH LONG LIFE. HE WAS DEVOTEDLY ATTACHED TO HIS BROTHER, APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, AND PROVIDENCE HAD DECREED THAT THEY SHOULD NOT LONG SEPARATED.
DEATH OBITUARY
21 MARCH 1809 ~ 27 SEPTEMBER 1888
THE PRESENT YEAR WILL BE MEMORABLE IN RESPECT TO THE NUMBER OF NOTED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH WHO HAVE DEPARTED THIS LIFE SINCE IT OPENED, YESTERDAY WE BRIEFLY ANNOUNCED THE DEATH OF JUDGE ZERUBBABEL SNOW AT HIS HOME IN THE CITY, AND TODAY, AS TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY, SO WELL WORTHY TO BE TREASURED, WE APPEND A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS LONG LIFE.
JUDGE SNOW WAS BORN IN ST. JOHNSBURY, CALEDONIA CO. VT. 21 MARCH 1809, HIS FATHER WAS A FARMER,BUT THE LAND HE TITLED WAS POOR, HIS FAMILY WAS LARGE, AND RIGID ECONOMY AND UNFLAGGING INDUSTRY WERE REQURIED ON THE PART OF BOTH PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN ORDER THAT WHAT MIGHT BE AVOIDED AND RESPECTABILITY MAINTAINED. IN THAT REGION DURING THE PERIOD OF JUDGE SNOW'S BOY HOOD. EDUCATION FACILITIES WERE EXTREMELY MEAGER AND BOOKS SCARCE. THE PRIMITIVE VILLAGE SCHOOLS, IN SESSION ONLY A FEW WEEKS DURING THE YEAR,AFFORDED HIM ALL THE MEANS HE HAD, ASIDE FROM PERSONAL EFFORT, TO OBTAIN AN EDUCATION; YET AT THE AGE OF 18 HE BECAME A SCHOOL TEACHER HIMSELF, AND TAUGHT SEVERAL TERMS IN VERMONT AND CANADA.
IN THE SPRING OF 1832 ELDER LYMAN E. JOHNSON AND ORSON PRATT INTRODUCTED THE FULLNESS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ST. JOHNSBURY, WHICH HE EMBRACED SOON AFTER FIRST HEARING IT. IT WAS NOT A THOUGHTLESS STEP WHICH HE TOOK IN SO DOING, AS HIS MIND FOR YEARS DWELT MORE OR LESS UPON RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS, WHICH WERE CONSTANTLY BEING DISCUSSED IN THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE WAS REARED. LIFE HAD ALSO STUDIED DEEPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM, TOUGH A MAN, POSSED A MIND WELL MATURED BY THOUGHT, RESEARCH, AND REFLECTIONS.
IN JUNE 1832 HE WAS CHOSEN BY THE BRANCH AT ST. JOHNBURG TO GO TO OHIO, WHERE HE ARRIVED IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH. HERE HE MEET AND BECAME WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JOSEPH THE SEER AND OTHER PROMINENT BRETHREN. HE WAS IN THE COMPANY WITH THE SEER DAILY WHILE THE LATTER WAS ENGAGED IN TRANSLATING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND HEARD HIM TRANSLATE THE WHOLE BOOK OF GENESIS, HE RETURNED TO VERMONT AND RESUMED SCHOOL TEACHING BUT IN 1834 CAME WITH HIS WIFE TO KIRKLAND, ARRIVING ONE DAY AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF ZION'S CAMP. LEAVING HIS FAMILY HE TOOK OVER THE CAMP, AND WAS CHOSEN COMMISSARY. HE PREFORMED WITH DUTIES OF THAT RESPONSIBLE POSITION WITH FIDELITY, ON THE MARCH TO MISSOURI, SOON AFTER REACHING THAT STATE HE RETURNED TO KIRKLND AND A FEW DAYS AFTER JOINING HIS FAMLY WENT TO CANADA WITH THEM WHERE HE REMAINED SEVERAL MONTHS, LABORING AS A MISSIONARY. HE RETURNED TO KIRKLAND IN THE SPRING OF 1835 AND STARED A MISSION THOUGH PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK IN TO CANADA WEST, BUT RETURNED TO KIRKLAND AGAIN IN TIME TO BE PRESENT AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.HE REMAINED IN KIKLAND SOME YEARS, TAUGHT SCHOOL ENGAGED IN BUSINESS AND FAILED, AND PAID HIS DEBTS IN FULL: STUDIED LAW AND IN OCTOBER 1839 WAS ADMITTED TO THE BAR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO. IN THE SPRING OF 1841 JUDGE SNOW'S WIFE SUSEN S. DIED SOON AFTER GIVING BITH TO A DAUGHTER, AND SUBSEQUENTY MARRIED MARY AUGUSTA HAWKINS.
IN 1850 WHILE STILL RESIDING IN OHIO HE APPLIED FOR JUDGESHIP IN UTAH, RECEIVED FROM PRESIDENT FILLMORE THE APPOINTMENT OF ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. HE REACHED UTAH IN THE SPRING OF 1852, ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE, AT THE TIME WHEN SOME FRICTION EXCITED BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT AND THE PEOPLE, IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH HE LABORED AS A PEACEMAKER. HE RETAINED HIS OFFICE UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THE TERM IN 1851 AND LEFT THE STAMP OF HIS INDIVIDUALITY UPON THE EARL JURISPRUDENCE OF THE TERRITORY.
ABOUT JUNE OF 1856 HE WENT ON A MISSION TO AUSTRALIA AND RETURNED IN DECEMBER OF 1858. IN 1859 HE BECAME PROBATE JUDGE OF IRON COUNTY, AND IN 1863 OF UTAH COUNTY. IN THE SPRING OF 1865 HE WAS APPOINTED PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF SALT LAKE COUNTY, IN 1876 HE WAS ELECTED TO THE SAME OFFICE TO WHICH HE WAS RE-ELECTED AT EACH ELECTION UNTIL 1884. HE HELD THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR TWO MORE TERMS, HE WAS ALSO CITY ATTORNEY FOR SALT LAKE CITY AND DURING HIS INCUMBENCY OF THE OFFICE THE CORPORATIO HAD SOME SEVERE LEGAL CONTEESTS WITH LIQUOR DEALERS.
IN 1870 JUDGE SNOW AIDED IN CODIFYING THE LAWS OF THE TERRITORY, A GEAT AND INPORTANT LABOR, IN FACT HE HAD BEEN ULTIMATLY ASSOCIATED LEGAL HISTORY AND JOURNALISM OF THE TERRITORY SENSE THE ORGANIZATION AND AS JUDGE AND LEGAL COUNCILOR HE HAS RENDERED SEVICES TO THIS COMMON WEALTH OF INESTIMABLE VALUE, AND WHICH LEISURE THE PERPETUITY OF HIS NANE AS A PIONEER AND FOUNDER OF ITS JUDICIARY.
JUDGE SNOW INTEGRITY WAS WITH OUT A BLEMISH AND HIS OPENNESS WAS NEVER IMPEACHED. HE WAS ENDOWED BY NATURE WITH A MIND EMINENTLY JUDICIAL AND PROFOUND. HIS MANNER WAS DIGNIFIED, AND HIS HONESTY RUGGED AND INVULNERABLE AND HIS OOSTERITY MAY AS WELL TAKE PRIDE IN THE SUCCESS HE HAS MADE WITH LONG LIFE. HE WAS DEVOTEDLY ATTACHED TO HIS BROTHER, APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, AND PROVIDENCE HAD DECREED THAT THEY SHOULD NOT LONG SEPARATED.
~ZERUBBABEL SNOW~
DEATH OBITUARY
21 MARCH 1809 ~ 27 SEPTEMBER 1888
THE PRESENT YEAR WILL BE MEMORABLE IN RESPECT TO THE NUMBER OF NOTED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH WHO HAVE DEPARTED THIS LIFE SINCE IT OPENED, YESTERDAY WE BRIEFLY ANNOUNCED THE DEATH OF JUDGE ZERUBBABEL SNOW AT HIS HOME IN THE CITY, AND TODAY, AS TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY, SO WELL WORTHY TO BE TREASURED, WE APPEND A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS LONG LIFE.
JUDGE SNOW WAS BORN IN ST. JOHNSBURY, CALEDONIA CO. VT. 21 MARCH 1809, HIS FATHER WAS A FARMER,BUT THE LAND HE TITLED WAS POOR, HIS FAMILY WAS LARGE, AND RIGID ECONOMY AND UNFLAGGING INDUSTRY WERE REQURIED ON THE PART OF BOTH PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN ORDER THAT WHAT MIGHT BE AVOIDED AND RESPECTABILITY MAINTAINED. IN THAT REGION DURING THE PERIOD OF JUDGE SNOW'S BOY HOOD. EDUCATION FACILITIES WERE EXTREMELY MEAGER AND BOOKS SCARCE. THE PRIMITIVE VILLAGE SCHOOLS, IN SESSION ONLY A FEW WEEKS DURING THE YEAR,AFFORDED HIM ALL THE MEANS HE HAD, ASIDE FROM PERSONAL EFFORT, TO OBTAIN AN EDUCATION; YET AT THE AGE OF 18 HE BECAME A SCHOOL TEACHER HIMSELF, AND TAUGHT SEVERAL TERMS IN VERMONT AND CANADA.
IN THE SPRING OF 1832 ELDER LYMAN E. JOHNSON AND ORSON PRATT INTRODUCTED THE FULLNESS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ST. JOHNSBURY, WHICH HE EMBRACED SOON AFTER FIRST HEARING IT. IT WAS NOT A THOUGHTLESS STEP WHICH HE TOOK IN SO DOING, AS HIS MIND FOR YEARS DWELT MORE OR LESS UPON RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS, WHICH WERE CONSTANTLY BEING DISCUSSED IN THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE WAS REARED. LIFE HAD ALSO STUDIED DEEPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM, TOUGH A MAN, POSSED A MIND WELL MATURED BY THOUGHT, RESEARCH, AND REFLECTIONS.
IN JUNE 1832 HE WAS CHOSEN BY THE BRANCH AT ST. JOHNBURG TO GO TO OHIO, WHERE HE ARRIVED IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH. HERE HE MEET AND BECAME WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JOSEPH THE SEER AND OTHER PROMINENT BRETHREN. HE WAS IN THE COMPANY WITH THE SEER DAILY WHILE THE LATTER WAS ENGAGED IN TRANSLATING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND HEARD HIM TRANSLATE THE WHOLE BOOK OF GENESIS, HE RETURNED TO VERMONT AND RESUMED SCHOOL TEACHING BUT IN 1834 CAME WITH HIS WIFE TO KIRKLAND, ARRIVING ONE DAY AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF ZION'S CAMP. LEAVING HIS FAMILY HE TOOK OVER THE CAMP, AND WAS CHOSEN COMMISSARY. HE PREFORMED WITH DUTIES OF THAT RESPONSIBLE POSITION WITH FIDELITY, ON THE MARCH TO MISSOURI, SOON AFTER REACHING THAT STATE HE RETURNED TO KIRKLND AND A FEW DAYS AFTER JOINING HIS FAMLY WENT TO CANADA WITH THEM WHERE HE REMAINED SEVERAL MONTHS, LABORING AS A MISSIONARY. HE RETURNED TO KIRKLAND IN THE SPRING OF 1835 AND STARED A MISSION THOUGH PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK IN TO CANADA WEST, BUT RETURNED TO KIRKLAND AGAIN IN TIME TO BE PRESENT AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.HE REMAINED IN KIKLAND SOME YEARS, TAUGHT SCHOOL ENGAGED IN BUSINESS AND FAILED, AND PAID HIS DEBTS IN FULL: STUDIED LAW AND IN OCTOBER 1839 WAS ADMITTED TO THE BAR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO. IN THE SPRING OF 1841 JUDGE SNOW'S WIFE SUSEN S. DIED SOON AFTER GIVING BITH TO A DAUGHTER, AND SUBSEQUENTY MARRIED MARY AUGUSTA HAWKINS.
IN 1850 WHILE STILL RESIDING IN OHIO HE APPLIED FOR JUDGESHIP IN UTAH, RECEIVED FROM PRESIDENT FILLMORE THE APPOINTMENT OF ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. HE REACHED UTAH IN THE SPRING OF 1852, ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE, AT THE TIME WHEN SOME FRICTION EXCITED BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT AND THE PEOPLE, IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH HE LABORED AS A PEACEMAKER. HE RETAINED HIS OFFICE UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THE TERM IN 1851 AND LEFT THE STAMP OF HIS INDIVIDUALITY UPON THE EARL JURISPRUDENCE OF THE TERRITORY.
ABOUT JUNE OF 1856 HE WENT ON A MISSION TO AUSTRALIA AND RETURNED IN DECEMBER OF 1858. IN 1859 HE BECAME PROBATE JUDGE OF IRON COUNTY, AND IN 1863 OF UTAH COUNTY. IN THE SPRING OF 1865 HE WAS APPOINTED PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF SALT LAKE COUNTY, IN 1876 HE WAS ELECTED TO THE SAME OFFICE TO WHICH HE WAS RE-ELECTED AT EACH ELECTION UNTIL 1884. HE HELD THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR TWO MORE TERMS, HE WAS ALSO CITY ATTORNEY FOR SALT LAKE CITY AND DURING HIS INCUMBENCY OF THE OFFICE THE CORPORATIO HAD SOME SEVERE LEGAL CONTEESTS WITH LIQUOR DEALERS.
IN 1870 JUDGE SNOW AIDED IN CODIFYING THE LAWS OF THE TERRITORY, A GEAT AND INPORTANT LABOR, IN FACT HE HAD BEEN ULTIMATLY ASSOCIATED LEGAL HISTORY AND JOURNALISM OF THE TERRITORY SENSE THE ORGANIZATION AND AS JUDGE AND LEGAL COUNCILOR HE HAS RENDERED SEVICES TO THIS COMMON WEALTH OF INESTIMABLE VALUE, AND WHICH LEISURE THE PERPETUITY OF HIS NANE AS A PIONEER AND FOUNDER OF ITS JUDICIARY.
JUDGE SNOW INTEGRITY WAS WITH OUT A BLEMISH AND HIS OPENNESS WAS NEVER IMPEACHED. HE WAS ENDOWED BY NATURE WITH A MIND EMINENTLY JUDICIAL AND PROFOUND. HIS MANNER WAS DIGNIFIED, AND HIS HONESTY RUGGED AND INVULNERABLE AND HIS OOSTERITY MAY AS WELL TAKE PRIDE IN THE SUCCESS HE HAS MADE WITH LONG LIFE. HE WAS DEVOTEDLY ATTACHED TO HIS BROTHER, APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, AND PROVIDENCE HAD DECREED THAT THEY SHOULD NOT LONG SEPARATED.
DEATH OBITUARY
21 MARCH 1809 ~ 27 SEPTEMBER 1888
THE PRESENT YEAR WILL BE MEMORABLE IN RESPECT TO THE NUMBER OF NOTED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH WHO HAVE DEPARTED THIS LIFE SINCE IT OPENED, YESTERDAY WE BRIEFLY ANNOUNCED THE DEATH OF JUDGE ZERUBBABEL SNOW AT HIS HOME IN THE CITY, AND TODAY, AS TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY, SO WELL WORTHY TO BE TREASURED, WE APPEND A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS LONG LIFE.
JUDGE SNOW WAS BORN IN ST. JOHNSBURY, CALEDONIA CO. VT. 21 MARCH 1809, HIS FATHER WAS A FARMER,BUT THE LAND HE TITLED WAS POOR, HIS FAMILY WAS LARGE, AND RIGID ECONOMY AND UNFLAGGING INDUSTRY WERE REQURIED ON THE PART OF BOTH PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN ORDER THAT WHAT MIGHT BE AVOIDED AND RESPECTABILITY MAINTAINED. IN THAT REGION DURING THE PERIOD OF JUDGE SNOW'S BOY HOOD. EDUCATION FACILITIES WERE EXTREMELY MEAGER AND BOOKS SCARCE. THE PRIMITIVE VILLAGE SCHOOLS, IN SESSION ONLY A FEW WEEKS DURING THE YEAR,AFFORDED HIM ALL THE MEANS HE HAD, ASIDE FROM PERSONAL EFFORT, TO OBTAIN AN EDUCATION; YET AT THE AGE OF 18 HE BECAME A SCHOOL TEACHER HIMSELF, AND TAUGHT SEVERAL TERMS IN VERMONT AND CANADA.
IN THE SPRING OF 1832 ELDER LYMAN E. JOHNSON AND ORSON PRATT INTRODUCTED THE FULLNESS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ST. JOHNSBURY, WHICH HE EMBRACED SOON AFTER FIRST HEARING IT. IT WAS NOT A THOUGHTLESS STEP WHICH HE TOOK IN SO DOING, AS HIS MIND FOR YEARS DWELT MORE OR LESS UPON RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS, WHICH WERE CONSTANTLY BEING DISCUSSED IN THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE WAS REARED. LIFE HAD ALSO STUDIED DEEPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM, TOUGH A MAN, POSSED A MIND WELL MATURED BY THOUGHT, RESEARCH, AND REFLECTIONS.
IN JUNE 1832 HE WAS CHOSEN BY THE BRANCH AT ST. JOHNBURG TO GO TO OHIO, WHERE HE ARRIVED IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH. HERE HE MEET AND BECAME WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JOSEPH THE SEER AND OTHER PROMINENT BRETHREN. HE WAS IN THE COMPANY WITH THE SEER DAILY WHILE THE LATTER WAS ENGAGED IN TRANSLATING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND HEARD HIM TRANSLATE THE WHOLE BOOK OF GENESIS, HE RETURNED TO VERMONT AND RESUMED SCHOOL TEACHING BUT IN 1834 CAME WITH HIS WIFE TO KIRKLAND, ARRIVING ONE DAY AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF ZION'S CAMP. LEAVING HIS FAMILY HE TOOK OVER THE CAMP, AND WAS CHOSEN COMMISSARY. HE PREFORMED WITH DUTIES OF THAT RESPONSIBLE POSITION WITH FIDELITY, ON THE MARCH TO MISSOURI, SOON AFTER REACHING THAT STATE HE RETURNED TO KIRKLND AND A FEW DAYS AFTER JOINING HIS FAMLY WENT TO CANADA WITH THEM WHERE HE REMAINED SEVERAL MONTHS, LABORING AS A MISSIONARY. HE RETURNED TO KIRKLAND IN THE SPRING OF 1835 AND STARED A MISSION THOUGH PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK IN TO CANADA WEST, BUT RETURNED TO KIRKLAND AGAIN IN TIME TO BE PRESENT AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.HE REMAINED IN KIKLAND SOME YEARS, TAUGHT SCHOOL ENGAGED IN BUSINESS AND FAILED, AND PAID HIS DEBTS IN FULL: STUDIED LAW AND IN OCTOBER 1839 WAS ADMITTED TO THE BAR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO. IN THE SPRING OF 1841 JUDGE SNOW'S WIFE SUSEN S. DIED SOON AFTER GIVING BITH TO A DAUGHTER, AND SUBSEQUENTY MARRIED MARY AUGUSTA HAWKINS.
IN 1850 WHILE STILL RESIDING IN OHIO HE APPLIED FOR JUDGESHIP IN UTAH, RECEIVED FROM PRESIDENT FILLMORE THE APPOINTMENT OF ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. HE REACHED UTAH IN THE SPRING OF 1852, ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE, AT THE TIME WHEN SOME FRICTION EXCITED BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT AND THE PEOPLE, IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH HE LABORED AS A PEACEMAKER. HE RETAINED HIS OFFICE UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THE TERM IN 1851 AND LEFT THE STAMP OF HIS INDIVIDUALITY UPON THE EARL JURISPRUDENCE OF THE TERRITORY.
ABOUT JUNE OF 1856 HE WENT ON A MISSION TO AUSTRALIA AND RETURNED IN DECEMBER OF 1858. IN 1859 HE BECAME PROBATE JUDGE OF IRON COUNTY, AND IN 1863 OF UTAH COUNTY. IN THE SPRING OF 1865 HE WAS APPOINTED PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF SALT LAKE COUNTY, IN 1876 HE WAS ELECTED TO THE SAME OFFICE TO WHICH HE WAS RE-ELECTED AT EACH ELECTION UNTIL 1884. HE HELD THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR TWO MORE TERMS, HE WAS ALSO CITY ATTORNEY FOR SALT LAKE CITY AND DURING HIS INCUMBENCY OF THE OFFICE THE CORPORATIO HAD SOME SEVERE LEGAL CONTEESTS WITH LIQUOR DEALERS.
IN 1870 JUDGE SNOW AIDED IN CODIFYING THE LAWS OF THE TERRITORY, A GEAT AND INPORTANT LABOR, IN FACT HE HAD BEEN ULTIMATLY ASSOCIATED LEGAL HISTORY AND JOURNALISM OF THE TERRITORY SENSE THE ORGANIZATION AND AS JUDGE AND LEGAL COUNCILOR HE HAS RENDERED SEVICES TO THIS COMMON WEALTH OF INESTIMABLE VALUE, AND WHICH LEISURE THE PERPETUITY OF HIS NANE AS A PIONEER AND FOUNDER OF ITS JUDICIARY.
JUDGE SNOW INTEGRITY WAS WITH OUT A BLEMISH AND HIS OPENNESS WAS NEVER IMPEACHED. HE WAS ENDOWED BY NATURE WITH A MIND EMINENTLY JUDICIAL AND PROFOUND. HIS MANNER WAS DIGNIFIED, AND HIS HONESTY RUGGED AND INVULNERABLE AND HIS OOSTERITY MAY AS WELL TAKE PRIDE IN THE SUCCESS HE HAS MADE WITH LONG LIFE. HE WAS DEVOTEDLY ATTACHED TO HIS BROTHER, APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, AND PROVIDENCE HAD DECREED THAT THEY SHOULD NOT LONG SEPARATED.
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