SNOW, PHILIP GROUCHY (1860-1937)

SNOW, PHILIP GROUCHY, Anglican rector, Newcastle and Nelson, 1895-1901; b. Newfoundland, 20 Aug 1860, s/o John Snow and Elizabeth Grouchy; m. 1890, Jane Sophia Bursell, of St John's, Nfld; d. 20 Jun 1937.

Philip G. Snow was educated in St John's and ordained an Anglican priest in 1891. He served as a missionary for three years at Exploits and two years at Spaniard's Bay, Nfld, and in 1894 transferred to Campbellton, N.B., as rector of Addington. A year later he succeeded the Rev. John H. S. Sweet as rector of Newcastle and Nelson.

Snow arrived in Newcastle at the end of October 1895. During his six-year residency he was active in the Masonic fraternity and was worshipful master of Northumberland Lodge in 1900. He also led the effort to form a branch of the SPCA on the Miramichi. In 1901 he moved to Fonda, N.Y. He was later at Kinderhook in the same state. In 1908 he passed up an offer to return to New Brunswick as rector of Gagetown. The next year, he accepted appointment as dean of the Episcopal cathedral in Kearney, Nebraska. He became rector of Woodland, California, in 1912 and of Waxahachie, Texas, in 1918. He was still at Waxahachie in 1926 but was living in retirement in Long Beach, California, in 1935, two years prior to his death.

There were no children enumerated in the Snow household at Newcastle in the census of 1901.