Oliver G. Snow

Who is Oliver G. Snow?

Oliver G. Snow was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature.

Snow was born to Lorenzo Snow and his wife Adeline Goddard. He was raised in Salt Lake City but at a fairly young age moved with his parents to Brigham City, Utah where his father was the leading authority in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Snow worked on building the transcontinental railroad. He then studied for a time at the University of Deseret under John R. Park. From 1870 to 1873 Snow served as a missionary for the LDS Church in the United Kingdom. In October 1873, he married Mary B. Peirce.

In 1875, Snow served another mission, this time in the Eastern States Misson, based in New York City. In 1877, when the Box Elder Stake of the LDS Church was organized, encompassing all of Box Elder County, Utah and headquartered in Brigham City, Snow was made the stake president, in many ways succeeding his father who had been essentially functioning like a stake president. Snow was released as stake president in 1888. From 1880 to 1886 he served as a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature from Box Elder County.