Dr Nathaniel Duffield Snowden

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    The North American, Philadelphia, Sunday, July 14, 1912
    Old Philadelphia Families
    by Frank Willing Leach
    
    This is part 14 (information on Nathaniel Duffield Snowden b. 1803)
    
    Nathaniel Duffield Snowden, fourth of the sons of Nathaniel Randolph and Sarah (nee Gustine) Snowden, was born at Harrisburg, November 28, 1803, studied medicine, and then migrated to Western Pennsylvania, settling in Venango County, where he practiced his profession for many years. Of him, a writer has said;
    
    An all around practitioner of the old school, he treated small-pox or amputated a limb with equal confidence and success, following all the lines laid down for medical men in this country. His knowledge of botany and the meteria medica was noted and scientific, and his diagnosis, that most obscure, difficult and important branch to apprehend, was clear, accurate, unexcelled.
    
    Gentle in manner,he was firm and resolute; if necessary in his judgement, heroic. There was no branch of his beloved profession, that he did not know, and know well. In which he was not eminent. In the long course of a varied and extensive practice, often visiting patients, he said, not so ill as he was himself, he deserved and obtained the whole confidence of the entire community.
    
    He filled a number of offices in Venango County, among others, those of Coroner, Recorder of Deeds, School Trustee, etc.
    
    Dr. Snowden died September 30, 1864, having married April 27, 1833, Jane McClelland, daughter of George and Nancy (nee Seaton) McClelland, who was born February 28, 1804, and died February 6, 1867.
    
    Mrs. Snowden's father George McClelland, was a man of much prominence in Western Pennsylvania, he having been the first Burgess of Franklin, Venango County, Treasurer, etc.
    
    Nine children were born to Nathaniel Duffield and Jane (nee McClelland) Snowden, of whom six died in infancy or early youth. The others were: Samuel Gustine, George Randolph and Jane Bredin.