From Wikipedia.
WILLIAM J. SNOW
(December16, 1868 to February 27, 1947)
Career U.S. Army officer who reached the rank of major general. Served as Chief of Field Artillery for seven years in the 1920s.
Native of Brooklyn, New York. Graduated from USMA in 1890 and commenced a long career in the Army's field artillery branch. Served in New York early in his career, then graduated from the artillery school at Fort Monroe. During the Spanish-American War he was involved with coast artillery in Louisiana.
Served in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War before returning to the States to command a battery at Fort Riley (Kansas). Then spent several years on duty at the Militia Bureau and commanded a battalion at Fort Myer (by Washington D.C.)
He commanded the 1st Field Artillery Regiment in the period immediately preceding World War I.
--Cooter
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