History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, / by Paul Leake ... [Vol. 3]

HISTORY OF DETROIT

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generic issues were involved, he gave his support to men and measures
meeting the approval of his judgment, without regard to strict partisan
lines. In the spring of 1860 he removed with his family into the fine
brick residence which he had erected and in which his widow still maintains her home, the place being endeared to her by the gracious associations and hallowed memories of many years. The Doctor, by successive
purchases of land in Dearborn township, ultimately became the owner
of a fine farm of about three hundred acres, and he found great satisfaction in supervising the improvement and general affairs of this estate,
on which he erected several small dwellings for the families of the men
whom he employed to direct its work. Ie made a specialty of raising
high-grade live stock and his sales of stock reached as high an aggregate
as several thousand dollars in a single year. The Doctor was an attendant of the Protestant Episcopal church, of which his widow is a member,
and they were liberal supporters of the work of the local parish of this
church, with which Mrs. Snow is still actively identified, though now
venerable in years. Dr. Snow made many judicious investments in real
estate, including a large tract of land which is now known as Snow's
subdivision of the city of Detroit. He was a man of broad views and
mature judgment and through his well directed efforts he acquired a
substantial competency,-the just reward of years of earnest and faithful endeavor. When he was summoned to the life eternal the entire
community manifested a deep sense of personal loss and bereavement,
for no citizen of Dearborn had been better known or more uniformly
loved and esteemed. The remains of Dr. Snow rest in beautiful Northview cemetery at Dearborn, where a stately monument has been erected
as a memorial, but his best monument is that of his worthy life and
kindly deeds.
In his native town in Ohio, on the 22d of October, 1851, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Snow to Miss Elizabeth Austin, who was there
born and reared and who is a daughter of Lucius Montgomery Austin
and Melissa (Whiting) Austin, both born in Connecticut. The town
of Austinburg, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was founded by Mrs. Snow's
great-uncle, Judge Eliphalet Austin. Mrs. Snow, a woman of most
gracious personality, proved a devoted companion and helpmeet to her
honored husband and is held in affectionate regard in the community
that has so long been her home. In conclusion of this brief memoir is
entered brief record concerning the children of Dr. and Mrs. Snow:
Herbert Montgomery Snow, who was born on the 26th of July, 1858,
attended the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, Ohio, and later
graduated from the Detroit high school. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, in which he was graduated as
a member of the class of 1883. Thereafter he was engaged in the practice of his profession in Detroit for a short time, and he then engaged
in the real-estate business, in which he gave major attention to the management of the land which his father had purchased in that city, with
an office in the Hammond Building. He platted the subdivision previously noted and continued to be actively identified with the real estate
business until his death, which occurred on the 27th of October, 1897.
In the meanwhile he continued to reside at Dearborn and was an influential factor in public affairs of a local order. He was a most earnest
and consistent churchman of the Protestant Episcopal church and at
the time of his demise was treasurer and a member of the vestry of the
parish of this church in Dearborn. He was a staunch Republican in
politics but the only public office in which he consented to serve was that
of school inspector. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and
held membership in various social organizations of representative character. On the 12th of September, 1883, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Her