Edgerton Snider

1826– 1867

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; baptized with family before his father left on mission to England in 1837; employed as a mason while living in Salt Lake County in 1850; called on mission to Hawai‘i in 1852; labored primarily on islands of Maui, Hawai‘i, and O‘ahu; returned to U.S. in 1855 in company with Augustus Side and others; died in Salt Lake City. (See MMH, biographical sketches; GQC journal, frequent references, Mar. 1853–July 1854.)