John D. Snelling, farmer and constable, Miami. Was born in Miami township, December 22, 1844; was raised on a farm, and educated in the country schools of the day. In the summer of 1863 he was impressed into the state service, and served about three months, when he was discharged. In the autumn of 1864 he joined Jo. Shelby’s command, and after active service to the end was discharged at Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1865. He returned to the farm, and continued farming until 1867, when he went to California, where he remained until 1870, and then returned to Saline county. In a year he went back to California, and remained until 1878, farming. He then once more returned to Saline, and has remained here since. In 1880 he was elected constable of Miami township. Mr. Snelling is a Master Mason, and is still a single man without a single “bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.”
