Benjamin P. Snow

Benjamin P. Snow was a graduate of Bowdoin [1855] and Bangor Theological Seminary. He served as clergyman at Alfred parish Church 1875 to 1881. An educator as much as a clergyman, Snow began the Alfred Reading Club in 1877 which eventually possessed nearly 2000 books. After leaving his clergy post in Alfred in 1881, Snow held several clergy and headmaster positions but retired to his beloved Alfred in 1903. He spoke at the PML dedication in 1903 and served as PML’s first librarian 1903-1907. Snow died after a bout of pneumonia in 1907- two days after his wife had passed from the same illness. The Snows shared funeral services and were both interred in Alfred’s Evergreen Cemetery.