Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 380 - 381 

DR. D.T. SNOKE, the leading veterinary surgeon of Wichita, came to this city from LaPorte, Ind., in 1884, and immediately made arrangements to continue the profession in which he had already enjoyed a large experience and been eminently successful. He is particularly fond of fine horses, and has a number of splendid animals in his stables; he also has the largest dog kennel in the State, which is called the Wichita and Southwestern Kennel, in which he has ninety animals of different species, comprising some of the finest blood in the United States. 

            Our subject was born on the 4th of July, 1853, in Cumberland County, Pa., whence his parents later removed to Franklin County, where he was reared to manhood. His father was Dr. Christian Snoke, and his mother in her girlhood Miss Anna High, both natives of Pennsylvania, as also were all the grandparents, Rev. John and Mary (Elsie) Snoke, and John and Lena (Ziegler) High. The Snoke family were originally from Germany, whence the paternal grandfather emigrated in boyhood. The maternal grandparents were natives respectively of England and Scotland, and crossed the Atlantic in their youth, settling in Pennsylvania, where they were subsequently married. 

            Dr. Christian Snoke, a graduate of the same profession as his son, our subject, followed this successfully through life and rested from his labors in 1869. The parental household included sixteen children, of whom Denton T. was the fourteenth. Of the others thirteen are surviving, and residents mostly of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas. Denton T. spent his younger years mostly in school and later attended the Philadelphia Veterinary College, by which he was graduated in 1873. He attended lectures in New York City and began practice in Chambersburg, Pa., where he operated successfully four years. 

            Dr. Snoke left Pennsylvania in 1879, making his way first to Minneapolis, Minn., where he resided two years, then took up his residence at LaPorte, Ind., where he lived and followed his profession three years. Since coming to Wichita he has built up a large practice, extending throughout Sedgwick and adjoining counties. 

            Dr. Snoke was married, Sept. 1, 1886, to Miss Emma L. Hill, of Ottawa, Ill., and daughter of John J. and Mina (Setzka) Hill, natives of Germany. The father is a manufacturer of carriages and wagons, and senior member of the firm of Hill & Foemhalls, well known throughout Ottawa and vicinity. Mrs. Snoke is the eldest of the nine children born to her parents and who are living with them in Ottawa; three died in infancy. 

            The Doctor occupies a comfortable home in the city, and with his estimable wife enjoys the society of many friends. He has very little to do with politics, but upon occasions of general elections supports the Democratic party.

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