Author: SNOW, George Washington
Biography:
SNOW, George Washington (1809-1900: ancestry.com)
Snow was born and died in Bangor ME. His parents were Israel and Hannah (Snow) Snow. With the exception of a three-year stint teaching school in North Carolina about 1820-23, he served in public office in Bangor all his life, notably as City Clerk (1844-71) and Clerk and Collector of the Water Board from about 1877--a position he still held in 1888. He was active among the Masons: his only other significant publication is a long historical poem, The Martyrdom of Jacques de Molnay (1885), although he was also known locally for producing occasional poetry to be read at anniversaries and the like. He outlived two wives. With Gratia Burpha Jewett (1818-75), whom he married in 1840, he had four children. By the time of the 1880 Census he was married to Canadian-born Sarah Emily Beek (1850-85) but by 1890 he was once again "widowed." He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor. (ancestry.com 1 Oct. 2020; findmypast.com 1 Oct 2020; G. B. Griffith, ed., The Poets of Maine [1888]) HJ