Life
He was the son of Edward Sumpter and Alice (Rowe) Snow. He graduated from Harvard University, and Boston University, with an M.A.
Snow married Anna-Myrle Haegg, on July 8, 1932, and they had a daughter Dorothy Caroline.
He was a high school teacher in Winthrop, Massachusetts. During World War II, he served with the XII Bomber Command, and he became a first lieutenant. He was a daily columnist at the The Patriot Ledger newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts from 1957-82.
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