Justin E. Snow
Justin E. Snow, farmer, P. O. Windham, was born May 10, 1828, in Windham Township, this county. His father, Erastus Snow, was born in Connecticut in 1782, and came to Windham Township, this county, in 1813. He was a prominent farmer, strictly honest in all his dealings, a consistent member of the Congregational Church. Erastus Snow was first married to Anna Alford, who died May 23, 1828, and by her had four children, two attaining majority: Anna L. and Justin E. For his second wife he married Polly Hawley, who bore him five children: Frank, Sarah, Lucretia, Francis and an infant. Erastus Snow died February 23, 1850; his widow January 1, 1870. Our subject, who was reared on a farm, received a common school education, and early in life learned shoe-making, which occupation he followed for twenty-five years, part of the time in Pennsylvania. He married. May 22, 1850, Eunice L. Rockwell, of Pennsylvania, who died February 16, 1855, leaving to his care one daughter—Elda, wife of Washington Beach, of Missouri (have three children: Nora, Cora and Millie). Mr. Snow was married the second time September 27, 1857, to Fanny H. Watson, of Pennsylvania, born May 22, 1833, at Appledore, County of Kent, England, daughter of George and Sarah (Fullagur) Watson, and by this union was born November 13, 1863, one child—Linda L. Mr. Snow served in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio National Guards, during the late war of the Rebellion. He returned to this county in 1876, and has since devoted himself to farming. He is a member of Garrettsville Lodge F. & A. M., Portage Lodge I. O. O. F., and Ravenna Encampment. In politics he is a stanch Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885