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Biography: Born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas, where he had his schooling through college at Kansas State
Agricultural College. Shortly after graduation he enlisted in the 20th Kansas, saw service in the Philippines being
promoted to 2nd Lt. in the field. He was mustered out in San Francisco as totally disabled with a life expectancy of less
than 1 year.
He recovered completely and took his senior year again at Dartmouth where his cousin, Earnest Fox Nichols, was head of
the Physics Department and later President, and where he was a student of E. B. Frost. They persuaded him to seek a
career in astronomy, and Frost later arranged for him to have a graduate fellowship at Yerkes Observatory of the
University of Chicago at Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
After his marriage to Ethel Snow, he continued his graduate work in astronomy in Berlin, where Steve was born in 1906.
He then returned to Yerkes on the staff, where Bert was born in 1908. In the following year, 1909, he became director of
the Dearborn Observatory of Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois where Trudie and Bob were born. He continued
as Professor of Astronomy and Director of the observatory until his resignation in 1929, with time out for Army duty in the
U.S. and France in World War I at the rank of Major.
In 1929 he accepted the directorship of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum in Chicago, the first planetarium
in the U.S. He resigned that post in 1937 to become director of the Museum of Science and Industry, founded by Julius
Rosenwald in Chicago. He served in that capacity until he was summarily forced to resign in 1940, a tragic episode.
Not long thereafter he went on active duty as a Colonel in the Army and wound up his military career at Harvard and M.I.T.
in command of Signal Corps officers in The Electronics Training Center and Underwater Sound Laboratory. When he was
retired for age from the Army, he continued to serve the same liaison function between the military and universities as a
member of the Harvard faculty until his death on July 21, 1944.
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Children of Ethel Lillian11 Snow (4) and Philip Fox (3) were as follows:
62. i. Stephen Snow12 (13) was born on 3 June 1906 at Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He married as his first
wife Marjorie Alice Bell (16), daughter of Douglas Bell (5103), on 3 October 1931. He married as
his second wife Marjorie Webster Endres (128) on 25 July 1972.
63. ii. Bertrand (2) was born on 28 February 1908 at Williams Bay, Walworth County, Wisconsin. He
married as his first wife Mary Kent Ziegler (20), daughter of Percy Rolfe Ziegler (1027) and
Mabel Greenleaf Hale (1028), on 21 December 1935 at West Newton, Middlesex County,
Massachusetts. He and Mary Kent Ziegler (20) were divorced in 1950. He married as his second
wife Patricia Noyes (5), daughter of Dewitt Clinton Noyes (6) and Esther Janet Pallen (7), on 20
January 1951 at the home of Doug and LeMoyne Hall, Succabone Road, Bedford Hills,
Westchester County, New York.
iii. Arthur (238) was stillborn in 1910. He died in 1910.
64. iv. Gertrude (14) was born on 15 December 1912 at 2235 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Cook County,
Illinois. She married Louis Pardo Tuttle (24) on 22 June 1945.
65. v. Robert Temple (15) was born on 5 September 1915 at Evanston, Cook County, Illinois. He
married Virginia Lee Williams (28) on 14 March 1942 at Charleston, Coles County, Illinois.
59. Bernice11 Vreeland (14830) (Harriet10 Snow, Jonathan9 , Jonathan8 , Mark7 , Johnathan6 , Nicholas5 , Mark4 , Nicholas3 ,
Nicholas2 , Nicholas1 ) was born in August 1878 at Illinois. 190 She appeared on the 1880 Federal census of Chicago, Illinois
in the household of her parents Walter F. Vreeland (14829) and Harriet Iamba Snow (236). 141 She appeared on the 1900
Federal census of Topeka, Kansas in the household of her parents Walter F. Vreeland (14829) and Harriet Iamba Snow
(236). 186 She married Cecil Howes (14831) circa 1906. 189 She and Cecil Howes (14831) appeared on the 1920 Federal
census of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, enumerated 13 January 1920. Their son Cecil (14832) was listed as living
with them, along with her mother, Harriet Iamba Snow (236). 188 She and Cecil Howes (14831) appeared on the 1930
Federal census of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, enumerated 5 April 1930. Their children Cecil (14832) were listed
as living with them. along with her mother, Harriet Iamba Snow (236). 189 Her death date has not been found.
Cecil Howes (14831) was born circa 1880 at Missouri. 189 His death date has not been found.
Children of Bernice11 Vreeland (14830) and Cecil Howes (14831) are:
i. Cecil12 (14832) is still living.
60. Myrtle11 Smith (14835) (Martha10 Snow, Jonathan9 , Jonathan8 , Mark7 , Johnathan6 , Nicholas5 , Mark4 , Nicholas3 ,
Nicholas2 , Nicholas1 ) was born circa 1885 at Illinois. Her birthdate is estimated from an age of 25 in the 1910 census. 195
She appeared on the 1900 Federal census of Chicago, Illinois in the household of her mother Martha Eleanor Snow
(237). 194 She married Orie Keeler (14836) before 1908. 195 She and Orie Keeler (14836) appeared on the 1910 Federal
census of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, enumerated 21 April 1910. Their son Clyde S. (14837) was listed as living with
them, along with her mother Martha Eleanor Snow (237). 195 She and Orie Keeler (14836) appeared on the 1920 Federal
census of Benona, Oceana County, Michigan, enumerated 23 January 1920, along with four other children and Myrtle's