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Snowden B. Herbert, M. D., of Wayland Springs, Tenn., is a native of Madison County, Ala., born in 1828. He resided with his mother until seventeen years of age, and then came to Wayland Springs and read medicine under his brother, Dr. C. L. Herbert, for two years. Owing to ill health he was compelled to abandon the study of medicine, and for two years was engaged in government surveying, after which he clerked two years in a general merchandise establishment in Florence, Ala. About this time he and his brother, F. C. Herbert, purchased an interest in the establishment, and the firm became Dean & Herbert. The same year they opened a similar establishment at Wayland Springs, the firm being F. C. Herbert & Co. They carried on a successful business four years, when there was a decline in cotton and they were compelled to make an assignment, closing out the entire business in the spring of 1855. Soon after our subject entered the University of Louisville, Ky., attending the sessions of 1855 and 1856. He then practiced medicine in Hardin County, Tenn., until 1861, when he made an extended tour of Texas and Arkansas, looking out a suitable location. On his return home in 1861 there was so much excitement owing to the war that he was compelled to remain here, and located at Wayland Springs. The property was first purchased by F. C. Herbert, and after being in the possession of several different owners was purchased in 1867 by our subject’s wife. The springs are four in number, and contain chalybeate, lime and freestone water and one contains carbonate of magnesia, carbonate of soda, chloride of sodium, protoxide of iron, potash, iodine and bromides. Dr. Herbert is a Democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a Mason and I. O. O. F., and was married to Martha A. Koger, April 14, 1853. She was born May 5, 1833, and is the daughter of William and Martha A. (Westmoreland) Koger. Our subject’s parents were Peter and Rebecca (McComb) Herbert, of South Carolina, who moved to Alabama in 1816. The father was a tanner and farmer, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died in Alabama in 1835, and his wife in 1864, being in Georgia at the time of her death.