History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 910, Vermont Township
S. Cochran, barber, was born in Pennsylvania in 1851; his
father, Jesse C., emigrated with him to Iowa, where Snowden (our
subject) grew to manhood and received a liberal education. He moved to
Clinton, Mo., and married Lizzie Montgomery, and came to Vermont in
1876, where he has since followed his vocation with great success.
