Zerubbabel Snow (March 29, 1809 – September 27, 1888) was an early leader in the

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, a

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, and a

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and Attorney General of the

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Biography

Snow was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont to Levi and Lucina (Streeter) Snow. He was taught about

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by missionaries Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson and baptized into the Church of Christ in 1832. On August 23, 1832, Snow and Amasa M. Lyman were ordained to the priesthood office of elder by

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and Frederick G. Williams, and the two of them immediately departed on a proselytizing mission. In 1833, Snow returned to Vermont and married Susan Slater Lang. He remained in Vermont until 1834, when he went to

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to become a member of Smith's

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expedition to

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. His first wife, Susan Slater Lang, died in Ohio after delivering their only child, a daughter, Susan Lizette Snow (born March 14, 1841), who later married Orson Pratt Jr. After the death of his wife, Susan, Snow married Mary Augusta Hawkins on August 25, 1841. This wife bore to him the following children: Cora Georganna Snow (1843–1915), Adelaide Louisa Snow (1852–1919), Zerubbabel "Zera" Levi Snow (1854–1922), George Wellington Snow (1856–1938), Herbert Walderman Snow (1863–1938) and Marion Mason Snow (1856–1939). In 1856, Snow married Mary Lavina Sawyer (née Stone), a widow who had a son (Walton O. Sawyer) by her previous marriage. This union did not produce Snow with any children. In 1835, Snow was ordained to the priesthood office of

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and became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. Snow and his family migrated with the Latter Day Saints from

, to

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, and finally to

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. In 1852 Snow was a

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for

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and Ohio. After serving as an associate justice of the Utah Territorial Supreme Court from 1850–54, Snow also served an LDS mission to Australia from June 1856 to December 1858. On February 19, 1869, Snow was elected as the Attorney General of the

. He died in

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, Utah Territory.

References

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, ''

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'', vol. 4, p. 691. * Bess Snow, Snow History of Levi and Lucina Streeter Snow Family

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