Henry V. Snell was a 1898 graduate of the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Upon receiving his mining engineering degree, Snell found work in Arizona, at various time as the chief mining engineer at the Old Dominion Mine, the superintendent at the Superior & Globe Mining Company, the superintendent and general manager at the Miami Consolidated Mines Co., and as an investor in the Stonewall Jackson silver mine.
From the description of Henry V. Snell Collection, 1908-1921. (Michigan Technological University). WorldCat record id: 759117312