Mr. Snow settled at Pine Bluff, Ark., in 1860, and afterward represented Jefferson County in the Constitutional Convention of Arkansas. He was elected in 1865 for the long term to the United States Senate from Arkansas. At the close of his term he declined a re-election, coming to New York City for the purpose of studying law. In 1871, however, Mr. Snow went to Paris, where he spent two years in the study of civil law. In 1875 he was admitted to the New York bar, receiving in the same year the degree of LL.B. from Columbia College. In 1882 he became Secretary and counsel to one of the New York trust companies, but resigned in 1888 to take up general practice. He acted as volunteer aide to Geneial Powell Clayton and Major-General Steele during the Civil War, and was instrumental in the enlistment and organization of three regiments in the State of Arkansas. Governor Murphy afterward tendered him an appointment as brigadier-general of volunteers, which he declined.

Mr. Snow is of retiring and studious habits, and in religion is a Unitarian. He is President of the Unitarian Congregational Society of Hackensack. and a member of the Lawyers' Club, the Bullion Club of New York, and the Oritani Club of Hackensack. Several of his inventions have proved successful, his thermostat being regarded as the most reliable of its kind.