Harry Snodgrass
Previous post: Fontabelle Baker Snodgrass
Last week, we introduced Fontabelle Baker Snodgrass, of Ohio State University, class of 1919. For all her successes as a young woman in university (see all the photos on her blog post!) it was fairly disappointing to see this involvement seemingly slip into the background as she got married and, eventually, became a mother.
Anyway, this post is not meant to lament Fontabelle's unappreciated leadership, but rather to serve as remembrance to another forgotten face that is included in a Last Supper-esque photo: Harry Snodgrass.
The photo is 8.5in x 11in - the largest I have found to date. Found at DC's much beloved Miss Pixies, I jumped for joy upon realizing Harry's name was quietly written in the left-hand margin of this photo: it is too great a scene to have passed up!
Unfortunately, there is no way to determine which gentleman is Harry - I would hope it was the inquisitively-skeptical man on the far right. Do you recognize any of these men?
Harry was, as we know, married to Fontabelle on August 21, 1921. Harry was born in 1887 to Morton Snodgrass and Anna Williams. It would appear that he had a fairly similar upbringing as Fontabelle, also growing up in Mechanicsburg, as evidenced by the 1900 census as well as by the photographer stamp on this second photo we found of Harry:
By 1910, Harry and his parents have moved to Columbus, where Morton worked as a commercial salesman, selling teas and coffees. Morton died one year later, in 1911, leaving Anna and Harry alone.
By the 1920 census, Anna and Harry live at 615 Woodlawn Ave, Springfield, OH. Harry works as an attorney, and according to this Ohio State Bar Association publication, he worked at Springfield's Fairbanks Building. In 2015, this building was designated to be renamed Hull Plaza, in honor of former attorney Anson Hill, who once had an office in the buidling. Could this Anson Hill be one of the men in the photograph with Harry?
Fontabelle and Harry are married and by 1930, the family, along with mother Anna and son Richard, live at 365 McCreight Ave, an address they would all live at through 1940.
Later in his life, from 1946-1953, Harry served as a judge with Springfield's Municipal Court, before dying in 1959.
Tracing Descendants
Harry and Fontabelle have two children after Richard, who was born in 1927: Jeanne, born in 1930, and Joel, born in 1936.
Joel married and then divorced Ada Goheen, and died young at age 45 in 1981 leaving three children behind whom we will attempt to return these photos to.
Richard's fate was no less heart-breaking. Twenty years prior to Joel's death, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported on a brutal suicide that occured on June 23rd, 1961 in Las Cruces, NM. The man,
an employee at New Mexico State University who had only moved to the area 1.5 months prior, had shot himself in the head. He was identified as Richard Snodgrass.
Jeanne lived a long life, dying only a year ago in 2017 in Gaithersburg, MD - a close proximity to Washington, D.C., which explains how these photos ended up at Miss Pixies. Considering the photos were auctioned off, and considering Jeanne's obituary identifies her by her maiden name, it would appear Jeanne left no descendants, either.
Do you know the Snodgrass family of Mechanicsburg, OH? Or know of a Harry Snodgrass who worked as a lawyer in Springfield?
Last week, we introduced Fontabelle Baker Snodgrass, of Ohio State University, class of 1919. For all her successes as a young woman in university (see all the photos on her blog post!) it was fairly disappointing to see this involvement seemingly slip into the background as she got married and, eventually, became a mother.
Anyway, this post is not meant to lament Fontabelle's unappreciated leadership, but rather to serve as remembrance to another forgotten face that is included in a Last Supper-esque photo: Harry Snodgrass.
The photo is 8.5in x 11in - the largest I have found to date. Found at DC's much beloved Miss Pixies, I jumped for joy upon realizing Harry's name was quietly written in the left-hand margin of this photo: it is too great a scene to have passed up!
Unfortunately, there is no way to determine which gentleman is Harry - I would hope it was the inquisitively-skeptical man on the far right. Do you recognize any of these men?
Harry was, as we know, married to Fontabelle on August 21, 1921. Harry was born in 1887 to Morton Snodgrass and Anna Williams. It would appear that he had a fairly similar upbringing as Fontabelle, also growing up in Mechanicsburg, as evidenced by the 1900 census as well as by the photographer stamp on this second photo we found of Harry:
By 1910, Harry and his parents have moved to Columbus, where Morton worked as a commercial salesman, selling teas and coffees. Morton died one year later, in 1911, leaving Anna and Harry alone.
By the 1920 census, Anna and Harry live at 615 Woodlawn Ave, Springfield, OH. Harry works as an attorney, and according to this Ohio State Bar Association publication, he worked at Springfield's Fairbanks Building. In 2015, this building was designated to be renamed Hull Plaza, in honor of former attorney Anson Hill, who once had an office in the buidling. Could this Anson Hill be one of the men in the photograph with Harry?
Fontabelle and Harry are married and by 1930, the family, along with mother Anna and son Richard, live at 365 McCreight Ave, an address they would all live at through 1940.
Later in his life, from 1946-1953, Harry served as a judge with Springfield's Municipal Court, before dying in 1959.
Tracing Descendants
Harry and Fontabelle have two children after Richard, who was born in 1927: Jeanne, born in 1930, and Joel, born in 1936.
Joel married and then divorced Ada Goheen, and died young at age 45 in 1981 leaving three children behind whom we will attempt to return these photos to.
Richard's fate was no less heart-breaking. Twenty years prior to Joel's death, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported on a brutal suicide that occured on June 23rd, 1961 in Las Cruces, NM. The man,
an employee at New Mexico State University who had only moved to the area 1.5 months prior, had shot himself in the head. He was identified as Richard Snodgrass.
Jeanne lived a long life, dying only a year ago in 2017 in Gaithersburg, MD - a close proximity to Washington, D.C., which explains how these photos ended up at Miss Pixies. Considering the photos were auctioned off, and considering Jeanne's obituary identifies her by her maiden name, it would appear Jeanne left no descendants, either.
Do you know the Snodgrass family of Mechanicsburg, OH? Or know of a Harry Snodgrass who worked as a lawyer in Springfield?
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