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Snodgrass, John Fryatt (1804-1854)
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Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia
by F. Vernon Aler, 1888
Printed for the Author by 
The Mail Publishing Company, Hagerstown, MD.

CHAPTER VIII.
Historical Pen Sketches of the Early Residents of Berkeley County
by the late Hon. Chas. James Faulkner.

Page 142

JOHN FRYATT SNODGRASS. 

Born in Berkeley county, Virginia, March 2, 1804; was a lawyer by
profession, and practiced in Parkersburg, Virginia. He was a member
of the Virginia Constitutional Convention, assembled at Richmond in
1850, and was a representative in Congress from 1753 until his
death, which occurred while trying a case in Court in Parkersburg,
June 5th, 1854. A sketch of his private, professional and political
character may be seen in the Congressional Globe of the 9th of
June, 1854, made by Hon. C. J. Faulkner, then a member of the House
of Representatives in announcing his death to that body.

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