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HIRAM SNAPP, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Joplin, was born in east Tennessee, Aug. 12, 1830. His parents, Joseph and Catharine (Bitner) Snapp, were natives of Virginia. Our subject grew to manhood in Tennessee, receiving a limited school education. He came to Missouri in 1865, stopping in Jackson county, near Independence. One year later he moved to Bates county, locating near Butler, where he remained until the breaking out of the war. He enlisted in June, 1862, in McDonald’s Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, and served until hostilities ceased. He was mustered out at Shreveport, La., in June, 1865, and at once returned to his home in Missouri. Everything of a movable, or destructive nature, had passed away with the ravages of war. Home, stock, all was gone. He moved with his family back to Tennessee, but soon returned to Missouri. He came to his present location in the spring of 1868, and has since improved a splendid farm, and engaged quite extensively in farming and the raising of stock, Mr. Snapp was married in Bates county, Mo., July 5, 1857, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Coleman and Lucinda (Robinson) Seal, also natives of east Tennessee. Their union has been blessed with four children: James, born March 24, 1858, died July 18, 1859; Joseph, born June 26, 1860, died Oct. 26, 1861; Hiram P., born Nov. 9, 1861, died Sept. 29, 1865; and Taylor F., born May 12, 1870.