The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-04
DEATH OF IT. H. SNOW.

teemed Former Citizen-Passes Away
 Suddenly.
 The news of the death of Henry H.
 Snow will be learned with sorrow by
 very many of our citizens who knew him when he was a New Haven busi-
 ness man and remember his sterling qualities of head and heart and his
 high character for integrity and honor.
 MT. Snow died Tuesday evening while
 sitting in his chair at his desk in his
 store, No. 3s Park Row, New York city.
 He had been at work strengthening out
 the days business, and about o'clock, when the store was about to close, one
 of the girl clerks spoke to him. l He did not reply, and then after a
 short pause one of the girls ran up the stairs to the balcony where MT. Snow
 was sitting. When she looked at him she became alarmed. Dr. Nelson was called from the Astor house, but could
 do nothing, for MT. Snow was proba- bly, dead when the girl first called to | him.
 The coroner was notified and MT.
 SnoW's son, Frederick M., who was in partnership with his father, was sum
 moned from his and his fathers home, l 173 Putnam avenue, Brooklyn. It was l thought that MT. Snow had died of ap- oplexy or heart disease.
 He was in his sixty-eighth year. He was brought up in New Haven, where
 he started in the confectionery business
 in 1850. He went to New York fourteen
 years ago and opened a store at 3S Full ton street.
 Five years ago he opened his Park
 Row store. MT. Shows health had not
 been good lately, and recently he re- turned from a months sojourn in Florida.
 MT. Snow was native of Hartford, Conn.,, son of Captain Elias Snow, a we'll known Connecticut navigator. MT. Shows first confectionery store in New Haven, forty years ago, was on Union street, near Chapel, in the rear part of the Adelphi building. Later he con ducted the confectionery business on Chapel street, a few doors below Union street. His business kept on prospering and he enlarged and equipped his store until it was the largest and finest store
 in the line in Connecticut. He manu- factured his own goods and the demand increasing, he erected a large brick building in the rear of his store and there conducted the manufacturing branch of his business. Shows confec- tionery became widely in demand and was recognized as a pure and whole some article, and Mir Snow made money fast. Later on he bought big tract of 1o, i,, hn rNt of New Haven, across West river, in the vicinity of the Donald G. Mitchell estate This was bought just before the financial depression of the '7O's and be- came burdensome to carry and not profitably salab1e, the price of land hereabouts having greatly depreciated. At one time the selectmen of New Ha- ven thought favorably of buying the tract of MT. Snow for a public park, it being diversified territory, part being a level plot back of West river and pat | being the wooded ridge little further l west.
 But the time was not ripe for estab- | lishing public suburban parks this l time coming as the public have seen in | recent years-twenty years later The | panic of 1873 and the shrinkage of busi- | ness came, and Mfr. Snow became finan- | ciany embarrassed, and was compelled | to make an assignment. He was able, | however, to effect satisfactory set | tlement with his creditors, and stiIl con- tinue in the confectionery business | here until sixteen years ago, when he l went to New York and opened store | on Fulton street. His business in New | York gradually extended until he was | able to open other stores, and since then | had been doing fine business, winning | a fine class of patronage. Of late years | he had three stores, all of them very | The deceased leaves quite | a large amount of life insurance. He | was in this city at the store of his son, Char1es P. Snow, just before leaving for his annual trip to Florida last win ter, and seemed no older than an active man at fifty, being as alert as ever. He was-in town also last Thursday visiting his son here. The deceased resided for many years on Greene street in the pretty cottage just below Wooster square, which he bought and remodelled and which for years past has been owned and occupied by MT. John Ruff k The deceased was for many years a prominent and esteemed member of St. Paurs church, this city. He was the first, or one of the first, orderly ser geants of the Governors Horse Guard at the time Colin M. Ingersoll was major of the command. k
 His wife, nest estimable lady, lied years ago, shortly after his re- noval to Brooklyn to reside. He leaves ,wo sons, Charles F., the oonfectioner of this city, and Frederick M. Snow, who was associated with the deceased f, n business in New York.
 The funeral services will take place It the late residence of the deceased, No. 173 Putnam avenue, Brooklyn, this evening. The burial will be in Ever green Cemetery, this city, at 1;3O p. m. tomorrow.