William Snow was born 14 December 1806 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. His parents were Levi Snow (1782-1841) and Lucina Streeter (1785-1858). He married six times and had twenty-eight children. He died 19 May 1879 in Pine Valley, Utah. Traces his ancestry to Richard Snow (1607-1677), who emigrated from England and settled in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Chiefly contains two histories of members of the Schneller family serving as missionaries in St. Kitts and in Palestine. George Carl [or Charles] Schneller and his wife, Hannah Miller, and their two children, arrived at St. Kitts, an island in the West Indies, in 1788, ten years after the beginning of the mission. They had been serving as missionaries at Antigua. They had three children born on St. Kitts, 1789-1793; two died as infants. After serving...