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From The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri (1901), The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
HAMILTON SNODGRESS, grocer, was born in Randolph county, Ind., Aug. 23, 1833, and is the son of William and Elizabeth (Gray) Snodgress. His father was a native of Jefiferson county, Tenn., and his mother was born near Pittsburgh, Pa. They were married in Indiana, to which state their parents removed when they were each quite young. Mrs. Snodgress's father, Andrew Gray, was one of the very first settlers on White River, Ind., and John Snodgress, William's father, was an early settler of the Flat Rock
River country. When they came to what is now Indiana, these were the only two eastern tiers of counties open for settlement. Hamilton Snodgress was raised and educated in the common schools of his native state and in Iowa, where his parents came in 1854, settling in Webster county, near Fort Dodge. Here he engaged in farming and teaching, and was fitting himself for a collegiate course when the war broke out and frustrated his plans. For four years he was in the mercantile business at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and in 1868 he came to Jasper county and settled on a farm five miles southwest of Carthage where he remained nine years. He then moved to Webb City in 1877 and engaged in the grocery trade, being next to the oldest merchant now in the place. He was married in Webster county, Iowa, Aug. 17, 1865, to Miss Mattie E. Karr, a native of Indiana. They have an interesting family of three children: Ida E., Dicie F., and William A. Mr. S. is not a member of any of the sectarian denominations. In politics he adheres to the principles of the Democratic party and in all things is liberal and progressive.
As printed in The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominent (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Missouri is to be congratulated upon the ability of its press, and the dailies published in the minor cities will bear comparison with papers of their class published anywhere in the United States. A good representative newspaper in this field is the Daily Register, published at Webb City, Jasper county, with which the name of Snodgress has been until recently associated.
W'william Snodgress was born in Tennessee. Elizabeth S. Gray, who became his wife, was born in Pennsylvania. In childhood they were both brought by their parents to Indiana, where their youthful days were passed among the pioneers on White river. In 1854 William Snodgress and his family removed to a point near Fort Dodge, in Webster county, Iowa. From there they removed in is68 to Jasper county, Missouri, settling on Center creek, five miles southwest of Carthage, where Mr. Snodgress purchased a farm of three hundred and ninety acres. Mrs. Snodgress died in 1875, '" Mr. Snodgress survived her until June, 1895.
Hamilton Snodgress, of Webb City, Jasper county, Missouri, was born in Randolph county, Indiana, August 23, 1833, and began his education in a log school-house near his father's home. Later he attended other schools;n Iowa, and in 1868 he accompanied his parents to Jasper county, Missouri. He was married August 17, 1865, to Menttice E. Karr, of 'webster county, Iowa, a daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Shaeffer) Karr, and has three children. Their daughter, Ida C, married Jesse A. Zook, of Joplin; their daughter, Dicie F., married Walter L. Spurgeon, of Webb City; and their son, William A., was until recently the editor and proprietor of the Webb City Daily Register. For twelve years Mr. Snodgress was in the grocery trade i't W'ebb City, where he has lived since August 6, 1877.
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As printed in The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Jesse A. Zook (b. 1863)
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