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SNELL, FREDERICK THOMAS (1845-1921)

SNELL, FREDERICK THOMAS, Baptist minister, Newcastle field, 1905-07, and Blackville field, 1907-09; b. Bodmin parish, Cornwall, England, 26 Sep 1845 (bap. 6 Jan 1846), s/o Frederick William Snell and h/w Mary; m. Elizabeth Woodside; d. Hampton, N.B., 8 Feb 1921.

The son of a contractor who moved his family to London from Cornwall, England, Frederick T. Snell toiled as a boy in a printing establishment on Fleet Street. Later, for several years, he edited a small religious paper called The King's Messenger. Drawn to the Baptist ministry by the preaching of the celebrated evangelist Charles H. Spurgeon, he was ordained in 1880 and posted to the Island of Guernsey, where he founded a church. He spent ten years in evangelical work in England and Wales and then went to the United States. Between 1890 and 1895 he had churches in Georgia and Wisconsin. Afterwards, he went back to England.

In 1897 Snell came in New Brunswick to be pastor at Havelock. He was later in Massachusetts and again in England before being called to the churches at Newcastle and Lower Derby in 1905. In 1907 he moved to Blackville to minister to the Upper Blackville, Underhill, and Morehouse congregations, and he stayed on that field for two years. His last church was at Alma, N.B. He retired in Hampton in 1915. A "very popular" minister with a "talented family," he was survived in 1921 by a widow, two sons, and two daughters.

Sources

[b/d] Telegraph 9 Feb 1921 [bap] LDS-IGI / Acadia archives; Advocate 22 Nov 1905, 6 Nov 1907, 7 Jul 1909; Leader 23 Aug 1907, 17 Sep 1909; official records (re. children's births)


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