Editing Lorenzo Snow (section)

==Family==
Snow was the fifth child and first son of Oliver Snow (September 18, 1775, [[Massachusetts]] – October 17, 1845, [[Illinois]]) and Rosetta L. Pettibone (October 22, 1778, [[Connecticut]] – October 12, 1846, [[Illinois]]), residents of [[Mantua Township, Portage County, Ohio|Mantua Township]], [[Ohio]], who had left [[New England]] to settle on a new and fertile farm in the [[Connecticut Western Reserve]]. Lorenzo had siblings Leonora Abigail Snow (1801–1872), [[Eliza R. Snow]] (1804–1887), Percy Amanda Snow (1808–1848), Melissa Snow (1810–1835), Lucius Augustus Snow (born 1819), and Samuel Pearce Snow (born 1821).

Despite the labor required on the farm, the Snow family valued learning and saw that each child had educational opportunities. Snow received his final year of education at [[Oberlin College]], which was founded by two [[Presbyterian]] ministers. Snow later made his living as a school teacher when not engaged in church service.