I am working on all of the Snowden Clans in the USA. I am from the line of John Snowden who died in Philadelphia in 1736. There are many other lines of Snowden families in America. The main lines are Richard Snowden of MD. Samuel and Joshua of SC. William and Aaron of Alabama. and James of Miss. The southern lines might be related but it has not been proven yet. I welcome all information on any Snowdens. I will continue to atempt to help anyone who is looking for their Snowden roots.

• Ancestors of John Elliott Snowden II (218 KB)
  I want to experament with how this web page works. I have made a GedCom of my greatgrandfather's ancestors and I'll see if other genealogists can get the information. I also made the tree small by not adding brothers and sisters. I want to see how much space this takes up.
• Descendants of John Snowden, of Philadlephia (657 KB)
  John Snowden who died in 1736 in Philadelphia was the first American in my family. He is said to have been born in 1632 but it may have been as late as 1650. He is said to have been the first Elder of a Presbyterian Church in America. It is known that he came to the new world about 1670 and that he was a Quaker. His father was William Snowden and William did not come to America.
• Covington Co. Alabama Snowdens (29 KB)
  I first got interested in this family because my wife has a Flowers cousin who married a Snowden. I have not been able to connect this line of Snowdens to any others. I hope that this will help people working on this line. To make this more helpful, Make Aaron Snowden the primary individual. This program makes the Flowers family primary because I entered them first.
• Richard Snowden of Maryland (169 KB)
  This is the second largest branch of Snowdens in America. Richard might very well be a cousin or even a Brother to John Snowden of Philadelphia. Much of the information here comes from the book Montpelier & The Snowden Family by William G. Cook
• Southern Snowdens James William & John (775 KB)
  Three brothers James, William, and John all seem to have come out of South Carolina. James settled Lauderdale Co. Miss. William was in Monroe Co. Ala. and there may be aconnection to the Covington Co. line. Less is known about John, who had descendants in Texas. Most of the information here is from other reasearchers. I don't know much about this line.
• Sam Snowden Ky-Mo (11 KB)
  I found this family living in Mo. in 1860. I got interested in this family by finding an Obituary in the Tampa Tribune for John L. Snowden. I found cousins of his working on his family tree, they still live in Texas. One of his daughters married a William Jarome Snowden, who is not her cousin, but oddly enough has the same last name. His family tree follows.
• Wayne Co. Tenn. Snowden (17 KB)
  As I was writing about the previous Tree. Two unrelated Snowdens married I began to look for the Husband's line. This lead me to Tennesee. Before that, they may have come from North Carolina but there is no proof.
• Joshua Snowden of South Carolina (50 KB)
  I don't have much on this family. I make a few guesses in my work here so some of this information might very well be incorrect. Corrections are welcomed. I have never met a Snowden who claims to be from this line so I would very much enjoy thier input.
• Samuel Snowden of South Carolina (15 KB)
  This branch of Snowdens pronounce the name differently, as in the word "now" not the long "o" as in "snow". Some of this family moved to Florida and now live in the Tampa area.

• Archibald Loudon Snowden 1835- 1912 (30 KB)
  Mr. Snowden was apointed Minister Resident and Consul-General of The United states to Roumania, Servia, and Greece. In July, 1892, President Harrison transferred him as Minister Plenipotentiary to Madrid. Col. Snowden participated in the campaigns made by the First City Troop of Philadelphia, the oldest military organization, with a continuous history in the United States.
• John Maugridge Snowden 1776-1845 (82 KB)
  John M. Snowden was a printer, newspaper publisher, Mayor of Pittsburgh, and Judge of Allegheny County. He had six sons and six daughters, ten of his children lived to marry and have children of their own. Snowden Twp. (now South Park) was named for this man.
• George Ogden Snowden 1835 - 1914 (36 KB)
  George Ogden Snowden was named for his Uncle George Odgen. When his father moved from Pittsburgh to Ogle Co. Ill. about 1855, George went along. A few years later he worked on the river in the South. He served in the Civil War, rising from the rank of Private to Captain. He was wounded at Bermuda Hundred. After the war he moved to Waterloo Iowa where he ran a store.
• John Moor Snowden 1806-1863 (89 KB)
  John Moor Snowden was the eldest son of John Maugridge Snowden. He was named for his grandfather, John Moore, who was a Judge of Westmoreland County. John M. Snowden Jr., moved to Oregon in Ogle County Ill. in the 1850s which is where he was buried.
• Ella Cutler Snowden Wright 1870 - 1958 (67 KB)
  Ella was the daughter of George O. Snowden and Sophronia Cutler. She married Edwin H. Wright. She was an accomplished China Painter. Samuel Wright, her grandson remembers her "She was a very proper and kind lady with spectacular artistic talent and enormous energy." After moving to Florida, she married Billy Ernst.
• Mary Elvira Hutchison 1848-1915 (137 KB)
  Mary was a farmer's daughter, her father William "Fox Bill" Hutchison was from an old Butler County family. Mary did her best to raise her children by herself after her husband died. She had to move back to Butler County in about 1884. She worked very hard all of her life cooking and cleaning. She died in Wilkensburg and was buried in Evans City.
• Elizabeth Elliott Snowden 1810-1864 (154 KB)
  Elizabeth Elliott was a grandaughter of Daniel Elliott the Indian trader who owned the Saw Mill at the mouth of Saw-Mill Run one mile down the Ohio from the point in Pittsburgh. She inherited over 20 acres of property near that site and lived there after she married John Moor Snowden in 1831. She is buried with her husband in Ogle Co., Ill.
• Elizabeth Snowden Ogden 1804 - 1887 (98 KB)
  Daughter of Judge John M. Snowden The Social Mirror : a character sketch of the women of Pittsburg and vicinity. T.W. Nevin, 1888. "An acknowledged beauty of the olden time, a blonde, vivacious, intelligent, who in her youthful loveliness was chosen as a partner in the dance by the gallant Lafayette was Mrs. Ogden, nee Snowden. The dress she wore on the great occasion is still preserved by her descendants. "
• Elizabeth Moor Snowden? 1782- 1860 (94 KB)
  I believe that this is a charcoal drawing of Elizabeth Moor Snowden. There is a good chance that this is the wife of John M. Snowden the picture seems to of the same time and material of the picture of him. They were found together in the attic of my father in 1999.
• John Elliott Snowden I 1832-1883 (47 KB)
  John remained behind in Allegheny County when his family moved to Ogle Co. Ill. in about 1855. He became a builder and a carpenter. He met Mary E. Hutchison, who was about 15 years younger than he was. He married her about 1870. By 1873 he had joined his brothers, William and George, in Waterloo, Iowa. He was working as a druggist for his brother William when he died of double pneumonia in 1883.
• Mary Emma Snowden Brewster (32 KB)
  Born Abt. 1837, Greene Co., Ohio Married April 1858, Green Co., Ohio, to Thomas K. Brewster who was a surgeon dentist. They had two children, James B. and Katie; have lost one daughter, Bertha B. In 1874 they moved from Dayton Ohio to Iowa. Died, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa?
• Isaac Clarkson Snowden 1791-1828 (15 KB)
  Isaac Clarkson Snowden, born December 31, 1791, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1811, and from the Medical Department in 1815. He was for many years a successful physician in Philadelphia. He was also a man of literary attainments. In 1828 he was chosen a Counselor of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and for two years, 1827 and 1828, he issued a publication called The Philadelphia Monthly Magazine.
• John Elliott Snowden II 1875 - 1947 (32 KB)
  John Elliott Snowden II was born in Waterloo Iowa. His father died when he was only 8 years old. His mother moved the family back to Butler County Pa. He was sent to work on the Sahli Family farm. As a young man he worked the Oil fields. He raised a large family, four sons and one daughter that grew to adulthood. His firstborn, a girl Rebecca, Died young. He was buried in Grandview Cemetery in Beaver Falls.
• Isaac Wayne Snowden 1794 - 1850 (15 KB)
  Isaac Wayne Snowden, was born May 1, 1794, studied medicine, and was appointed, February 19, 1817, surgeon's mate in the 7th Infantry, United States Army. He resigned the following year, October 8, 1818, having, in the meanwhile, served in the campaign against the Seminole Indians of Florida. For many years he was an elder of the Hagerstown Presbyterian Church. "Dr. Snowden" says a writer, "was the type of a Christian gentleman, and died respected and loved by all who knew him."
• Isabella Carothers Snowden 1874 - 1971 (32 KB)
  Isabella Carothers Snowden was the daughter on an Irish immigrant. Her father Robert Carothers came to America as a young man. He fought to preserve the Union in the Civil War. Isabella lived to be almost 97, I remember going to visit her in her home in Franklin Twp. Pa. Isabella came from a large family, she had 7 brothers and 3 sisters. The Carothers kept strong family ties and held many family reunions up until the early 1970s
• Luella "Lulu" Snowden Fluckey 1873- 1934 (18 KB)
  Born in Lerna Ill. Mrs. Fluckey was educated at Northern Illinois Normal University at Bloomington and Austin College in Effingham. She taught in Illinois schools for several years before coming to Washington DC. She was president of the Capitol Hill History Club in 1904 and 1905 and was a member of the Zonta Club. She achieved prominence as a china decorator after studing at Corcoran Art School.
• John Elliott Snowden III 1901-1969 (25 KB)
  My Grandfather, was born, lived and died in Western Pa. A few years ago I asked Gregg Snowden to tell me about him this is part of what he said; " He was a master machinist and could fix anything....he was a great mechanic and loved tinkering with things. He loved his property in the country and felt complete as a man, father and grandfather."
• William H. Snowden 1869- Aft.1920 (40 KB)
  William Hutchison Snowden was born in Allegheny County Pa. but moved with his parents to Waterloo Iowa at a very young age. When his father died in 1883 the family had to move back to Western Pa. he woked on the Sahli's farm. He had 2 daughters and 1 son.
• James Ross Snowden 1809-1878 (155 KB)
  He was educated at Dickinson college. He was a member of the state house of representatives, 1841-1844, he served as speaker the last two years. He became state treasurer in 1845, and was treasurer of the U.S. Mint, 1847-50. He was the first to authorize the sale of proof coins to the general public.
• Alfred B. Snowden 1849 - 1889 (65 KB)
  Alfred B. (probably for Bronson*) Snowden moved with his parents to Ogle Co. Ill. in the mid 1850s. In 1866 he joined he brothers George and William in Waterloo Iowa. By 1880 he had moved to Omaha, where he died in 1889 leaving no children. *He was probably named in honor of the Rev. Alfred Bronson

• The North American, Philadelphia, 1912 (61 KB)
  The North American, Philadelphia, Sunday, July 14, 1912 Old Philadelphia Families by Frank Willing Leach The story of the Snowden family of Philadelphia.
• John M. Snowden Biography (8 KB)
  Centennial volume of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, PA., 1784-1884. From pages 200-203 SOME EMINENT ELDERS OF THE FIRST CHURCH by The Rev. Dr. James Allison, who married Judge Snowden's daughter. Many other's have quoted this biography. One can assume that because he was so close to the family that he must have obtained his information from John's widow Elizabeth and her surviving children. Dr Allison was also well known as the editor of The Presbyterian Banner.
• Snowden & McCorkle in Chambersburg Pa. (7 KB)
  John M. Snowden and his brother-in-law/partner William McCorkle seem to have been perceived as troublemakers in Chambersburg Pa. They did not stay long, only long enough to anger the Federalist local government. They moved west to Greensburg and established a paper there. Dr. Jeffrey L. Pasley writes about them in his book. Look for links to his sites further down this page.
• Rev. Dr. Francis Laird DD (8 KB)
  Rev. Francis Laird was the brother-in-law of John M. Snowden. They had married daughters of Judge John Moore of Westmoreland Co. Pa. John M. named one of his sons in honor of Francis Laird. I would be interested if anyone had more information on this family. I am always interested on anything about Judge John Moore.
• Judge John Moore (4 KB)
  Judge John Moore was the Father-in-law of John M. Snowden. He was an early judge in Westmoreland Co. Pa. He was a man of note in early western Pa. history. If anyone has more information on what happened to his children, the males in particular please contact me.

• Historic Pittsburgh
• Jeffery L. Pasley
• Genforum Snowden Page
• Rootsweb Snowdon page
• Rootsweb Snowden page
• Ancestors of Randall W. Snowden of Baton Rouge, LA
• Ohio Snowden Family taught
• Richard Snowden homested in Patuxent MD
• Greg Snowden - Mississippi State Representative - District 8
• The William Snowden House of Waterloo Iowa
• Snowdon/Snowden of Canada Descendants of Pickering Snowdon
• Cemetery listings in Western Pa.
• Cornell Library Digital Collections
• From Dr. Pasley's Book,
• The Early American Republic Dr. Jeffery L. Pasley

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