JOHN H. C. SNECLODE,, insurance and collecting agency, Cassville; born on the Baltic April 14, 1821; in 1841, was in the employ of the Kiel & Altoona R. R., and continued until the great fire in Heinburg, in 1842, when he came to Baltimore, Md.; remained six months, when he reutrned to Holstein, and was put in the regular army, where he remained ten weeks, when he deserted and came to America, landed in New York; then to Canada in the fall of 1843; in the spring of 1844, went to Michigan, there engaged in carpentering, when he arrived there his trunk was empty, the last penny gone, but, being a good draftsman he soon received the best of wages; in the fall of 1844, he went to Galena, Ill., where he remained until 1846; the times being very dull and no money, he enlisted for the Mexican war with Capt. Crow, afterward Dr. Crow, of Galena; served until the close of the war, when he returned and worked at various occupations; until 1849, he was engaged on the steamer Yankee of the St. Paul and St. Louis line; in 1850, he came to Cassville and worked at his trade, some of the finest buildings in the city were built by him. In 1857, he was engaged in farming, but made a failure; he returned to his trade. Now owns 320 acres of land on Sec. 27, also town property. His first wife, Jane Va Ansdall, of Holland, deceased, was born in Ohio, in November, 1833; moved to Wisconsin in 1845. Married March 16, 1856, died July 2, 1871; by this union there were five children - Annie, now Mrs. McCormick; Catherine, born in 1861, died in 1863; Ester, born in October, 1864, died Jan. 28, 1871; Margaret, born in March, 1868; Cornelia, born September, 1870, died in June, 1871. Second wife, Amelia Phetteplace, born in Illinois, in February, 1847. Married in September, 1873; no children. In politics, Republican, and one of the little band that, in 1854, organized the party in this county at Lancaster, John H. Rountree, Chairman; John G. Clark, Secretary. He was raised a Lutheran. Has held the office of Justice of the Peace, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Notary Public. A Mason, and belongs to the Chapter at Lancaster; I. O. O. F. Lodge at Bloomington. Gives considerable attention to surveying in Iowa and Wisconsin.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.