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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [247]

           HORACE G. SNOVER, of the firm of WINSOR & SNOVER, attorneys,
        bankers and real-estate brokers at Port Austin, was born Sept. 21,
        1847, at Romeo, Macomb Co., Mich.  His parents, EDWARD S. and ANN
        (COOK) SNOVER, are natives of New Jersey.  They were married in
        Hope, Warren Co., N.J., and became the parents of eight children,
        seven of whom are yet living. CHARLOTTE E. is the wife of FRANKLIN
        SCOTT and resides near Romeo; JOSEPHINE C. married J. E. SELDEN,
        one of the proprietors of the woolen mills at Vassar, Mich,;
        CASSIUS C. is a surveyor and civil engineer, and resides in Dakota;
        MR. SNOVER of this sketch is the next (fourth) in order of birth;
        ALICE M. (deceased) was the wife of GEORGE PARMELEE, a farmer of
        Macomb County; HARRIET S. married HARTMAN CORNELL, a farmer near
        Romeo; EDWARD J. is a civil engineer and resides at Romeo; EMMA E.
        is the wife of CHARLES TACKLES, Assistant Cashier in the First
        National Bank at Romeo. The parents still reside there and the
        senior SNOVER is a capitalist of that place.
           MR. SNOVER was reared to manhood in his native town. He obtained
        a solid elementary education in the common schools and at 17 matri-
        culated at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he pur-
        sued a classical course of study, covering a period of four years,
        and was graduated there in 1869 with the degree of B. A. In the
        fall of the same year he entered the Law Department of the Univer-
        sity, where he was graduated in 1871. He set out for the West to
        select a location for establishing himself in the prosecution of
        his business, and after prospecting a short time he opened an
        office at Wichita, Kan.  He remained there a year, returned to
        Romeo and taught school there in the winter of 1873-4.
           In the fall of 1874 MR. SNOVER came to Port Aus tin to engage in
        the management of the High School as Principal, in which position
        he officiated two years. In August, 1876, he purchased the interest
        of ROBERT W. IRWIN in the law and real-estate business of WINSOR &
        IRWIN, the new firm taking its present style. It is one of the
        leading law associations in this part of Michigan, and, besides its
        extensive legal relations, it is engaged in the transaction of a
        real-estate business of large dimensions. They own 20,000 acres of
        land, and besides the prosecution of their own affairs in real
        estate they act as agents for other parties. They represent the
        insurance companies known as the Fire, London & Liverpool and
        Globe, the Home of New York and the Union of San Francisco.
           MR. SNOVER is a Republican. In the fall of 1880 he was the
        candidate of that ticket for Judge of Probate, and was elected to
        the position by a majority of over 600 votes. He is a member of the
        Masonic fraternity.
           His marriage to NELLIE E. WILLIAMS took place at Port Austin,
        Aug. 27, 1879.  EDWARD S., only child, was born at Port Austin, May
        25, 1880.  MRS. SNOVER was born at Port Austin and is the daughter
        of ORTICE B. and MARIA A. (HANFORD) WILLIAMS. (See sketch of O. B.
        WILLIAMS.)

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