Snowden, I. B. bio

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 461, Astoria Township
I. B. Snowden, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 5; P. O., Vermont. was born in Brooke Co., W. Va., in 1837, and is the son of Ezra and Margaret Snowden, and was the third of a family of 11 children. Ezra was a carpenter and boat-builder by occupation. At the early age of 19 our subject set out for the West and reached Fulton Co. in the spring of the year, and engaged as a farm-hand. In 1861 he took unto himself a wife in the person of Miss Elmira Henderson, daughter of Wm. Henderson, a pioneer of this county. In 1870 Mr. S. purchased a farm in McDonough Co. Of the marriage with Miss Henderson the fruits have been 5 children, 3 of whom are living, - Laura, Lenora and Leroy.
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