Loum Snow, the patriarch in the family plot, is a direct descendent of Constance Hopkins and Nicholas Snow. He married Abby Harris Easton Mowry on 23 May 1835 and had nine children, seven of whom lived past childhood. Graves of all are within the Snow Plot. They are, in order of birth, Abby Mowry, Susan Swift, Loum, Helen Throckmorton, Isabel Mowry, Annie Dorcas, Jennie Shershon, Elizabeth Easton, and Robert.
He was educated in his native town, in New Bedford, and at a training school in Sandwich. He started in a mercantile business with Thomas Cook, under the name of Cook & Snow, and while thus engaged built the mills of the Pacific Manufacturing Company at East Falmouth. He then retired from the firm and became agent for whaling vessels. When he organized the company and bought the Star Mill at Middleboro, he became president and manager, relations he sustained during the remainder of his life. He became very successful, and was officially connected with a number of important concerns, being a director of the Mechanics' National Bank, trustee of the New Bedford Institution for Savings, director of the United Mutual Marine Insurance Company and of the New Bedford Commercial Insurance Company. In 1859, having in his employ a colored man, Carney by name, whose wife was still a slave and who used often to run away to see her, Mr. Snow bought the slave wife for $300 from her owner, and immediately manumitted her. He was active in all charities, as well as in all movements of a nonpolitical nature. He was treasurer and a promoter of the Rural cemetery.
from: Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts ..., J.H. Beers & Co. Volume 3: pp 1437-1440
Three of his siblings (Ann Swift, Mark, and Susan West are buried in the First Congregational Church Cemetery where his mother (Nancy Swift) is also buried and where there is a memorial to their father, Capt. Loum (or Loammi) Snow who died at sea. Another sibling, Abner West, is buried with his family in the Pine Grove Cemetery. His cousin is Humphrey Hathaway Swift.
He was educated in his native town, in New Bedford, and at a training school in Sandwich. He started in a mercantile business with Thomas Cook, under the name of Cook & Snow, and while thus engaged built the mills of the Pacific Manufacturing Company at East Falmouth. He then retired from the firm and became agent for whaling vessels. When he organized the company and bought the Star Mill at Middleboro, he became president and manager, relations he sustained during the remainder of his life. He became very successful, and was officially connected with a number of important concerns, being a director of the Mechanics' National Bank, trustee of the New Bedford Institution for Savings, director of the United Mutual Marine Insurance Company and of the New Bedford Commercial Insurance Company. In 1859, having in his employ a colored man, Carney by name, whose wife was still a slave and who used often to run away to see her, Mr. Snow bought the slave wife for $300 from her owner, and immediately manumitted her. He was active in all charities, as well as in all movements of a nonpolitical nature. He was treasurer and a promoter of the Rural cemetery.
from: Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts ..., J.H. Beers & Co. Volume 3: pp 1437-1440
Three of his siblings (Ann Swift, Mark, and Susan West are buried in the First Congregational Church Cemetery where his mother (Nancy Swift) is also buried and where there is a memorial to their father, Capt. Loum (or Loammi) Snow who died at sea. Another sibling, Abner West, is buried with his family in the Pine Grove Cemetery. His cousin is Humphrey Hathaway Swift.
Loum Snow, the patriarch in the family plot, is a direct descendent of Constance Hopkins and Nicholas Snow. He married Abby Harris Easton Mowry on 23 May 1835 and had nine children, seven of whom lived past childhood. Graves of all are within the Snow Plot. They are, in order of birth, Abby Mowry, Susan Swift, Loum, Helen Throckmorton, Isabel Mowry, Annie Dorcas, Jennie Shershon, Elizabeth Easton, and Robert.
He was educated in his native town, in New Bedford, and at a training school in Sandwich. He started in a mercantile business with Thomas Cook, under the name of Cook & Snow, and while thus engaged built the mills of the Pacific Manufacturing Company at East Falmouth. He then retired from the firm and became agent for whaling vessels. When he organized the company and bought the Star Mill at Middleboro, he became president and manager, relations he sustained during the remainder of his life. He became very successful, and was officially connected with a number of important concerns, being a director of the Mechanics' National Bank, trustee of the New Bedford Institution for Savings, director of the United Mutual Marine Insurance Company and of the New Bedford Commercial Insurance Company. In 1859, having in his employ a colored man, Carney by name, whose wife was still a slave and who used often to run away to see her, Mr. Snow bought the slave wife for $300 from her owner, and immediately manumitted her. He was active in all charities, as well as in all movements of a nonpolitical nature. He was treasurer and a promoter of the Rural cemetery.
from: Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts ..., J.H. Beers & Co. Volume 3: pp 1437-1440
Three of his siblings (Ann Swift, Mark, and Susan West are buried in the First Congregational Church Cemetery where his mother (Nancy Swift) is also buried and where there is a memorial to their father, Capt. Loum (or Loammi) Snow who died at sea. Another sibling, Abner West, is buried with his family in the Pine Grove Cemetery. His cousin is Humphrey Hathaway Swift.
He was educated in his native town, in New Bedford, and at a training school in Sandwich. He started in a mercantile business with Thomas Cook, under the name of Cook & Snow, and while thus engaged built the mills of the Pacific Manufacturing Company at East Falmouth. He then retired from the firm and became agent for whaling vessels. When he organized the company and bought the Star Mill at Middleboro, he became president and manager, relations he sustained during the remainder of his life. He became very successful, and was officially connected with a number of important concerns, being a director of the Mechanics' National Bank, trustee of the New Bedford Institution for Savings, director of the United Mutual Marine Insurance Company and of the New Bedford Commercial Insurance Company. In 1859, having in his employ a colored man, Carney by name, whose wife was still a slave and who used often to run away to see her, Mr. Snow bought the slave wife for $300 from her owner, and immediately manumitted her. He was active in all charities, as well as in all movements of a nonpolitical nature. He was treasurer and a promoter of the Rural cemetery.
from: Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts ..., J.H. Beers & Co. Volume 3: pp 1437-1440
Three of his siblings (Ann Swift, Mark, and Susan West are buried in the First Congregational Church Cemetery where his mother (Nancy Swift) is also buried and where there is a memorial to their father, Capt. Loum (or Loammi) Snow who died at sea. Another sibling, Abner West, is buried with his family in the Pine Grove Cemetery. His cousin is Humphrey Hathaway Swift.
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