Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Baraboo:

H. D. Snell, track-layer for the C. & N. W. R. R. Company; was born in Windham, Co., Conn., Jan. 3, 1833; he came to Sauk Co. in 1854. He enlisted in the fall of 1863, in Co. F, 23d W.V.I.; was in the service about one year, then came home on a furlough sick, and was discharged; he has been in the employ of the railroad company about seven years. He was married July 3, 1856, to Miss P.E. Newell; she was born in Essex Co., N.Y.; came to Sauk Co. with her parents in 1852; they have one son J.P. Snell. In politics, Mr. Snell is a Republican.

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