Randolph Snell. University of South Florida Tampa Library still image eng Portrait of Jacob Randolph Snell, President of the Manatee County Dairy Farmers Association. Born ca. 1923, in Midland, Alabama, he was aged 79 in August 2002. He met his wife Marvis Reeder, of the pioneer Palmetto area Gillett and Richards families, while at Auburn University. He went on to do graduate work in animal nutrition at Iowa State University and the University of Wisconson. After they married, they returned to Manatee County where they entered the family farming business. He developed a special formula for hand feeding calves, which they used throughout the 1960s. The Snells and Marvis's brothers, Graham and J.T. Reeder, ran Reeder Ranch and Dairy and Reeder Farm, with citrus and vegetable lands. The businesses also owned and operated Airport Manatee near Piney Point and Port Manatee. His wife Mavis wrote Testimony to Pioneer Baptists, published in 1974. He helped her research her second book on The Gillette Cemetery, published nearly thirty years later, in 2002. Their son Rand Snell was editor. Son Rand served as aide to Senator (later Florida Governor) Lawton Chiles in Washington D.C. and was a study director in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in the late 1980s before running in 1992 for the newly created 13th District seat in the U.S. Congress. He lost out to Dan Miller. Portrait of Jacob Randolph Snell, President of the Manatee County Dairy Farmers Association. Born ca. 1923, in Midland, Alabama, he was aged 79 in August 2002. He met his wife Marvis Reeder, of the pioneer Palmetto area Gillett and Richards families, while at Auburn University. He went on to do graduate work in animal nutrition at Iowa State University and the University of Wisconson. After they married, they returned to Manatee County where they entered the family farming business. He developed a special formula for hand feeding calves, which they used throughout the 1960s. The Snells and Marvis's brothers, Graham and J.T. Reeder, ran Reeder Ranch and Dairy and Reeder Farm, with citrus and vegetable lands. The businesses also owned and operated Airport Manatee near Piney Point and Port Manatee. His wife Mavis wrote Testimony to Pioneer Baptists, published in 1974. He helped her research her second book on The Gillette Cemetery, published nearly thirty years later, in 2002. Their son Rand Snell was editor. Son Rand served as aide to Senator (later Florida Governor) Lawton Chiles in Washington D.C. and was a study director in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in the late 1980s before running in 1992 for the newly created 13th District seat in the U.S. Congress. He lost out to Dan Miller. Manatee County Dairy Farmers Association Reeder, Mavis (Mrs. Randolph Snell) Snell, Jacob Randolph Snell, Mavis Reeder United States Florida--Manatee County--Palmetto Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection
Randolph Snell.
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Portrait of Jacob Randolph Snell, President of the Manatee County Dairy Farmers Association. Born ca. 1923, in Midland, Alabama, he was aged 79 in August 2002. He met his wife Marvis Reeder, of the pioneer Palmetto area Gillett and Richards families, while at Auburn University. He went on to do graduate work in animal nutrition at Iowa State University and the University of Wisconson. After they married, they returned to Manatee County where they entered the family farming business. He developed a special formula for hand feeding calves, which they used throughout the 1960s. The Snells and Marvis's brothers, Graham and J.T. Reeder, ran Reeder Ranch and Dairy and Reeder Farm, with citrus and vegetable lands. The businesses also owned and operated Airport Manatee near Piney Point and Port Manatee. His wife Mavis wrote Testimony to Pioneer Baptists, published in 1974. He helped her research her second book on The Gillette Cemetery, published nearly thirty years later, in 2002. Their son Rand Snell was editor. Son Rand served as aide to Senator (later Florida Governor) Lawton Chiles in Washington D.C. and was a study director in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in the late 1980s before running in 1992 for the newly created 13th District seat in the U.S. Congress. He lost out to Dan Miller.
Portrait of Jacob Randolph Snell, President of the Manatee County Dairy Farmers Association. Born ca. 1923, in Midland, Alabama, he was aged 79 in August 2002. He met his wife Marvis Reeder, of the pioneer Palmetto area Gillett and Richards families, while at Auburn University. He went on to do graduate work in animal nutrition at Iowa State University and the University of Wisconson. After they married, they returned to Manatee County where they entered the family farming business. He developed a special formula for hand feeding calves, which they used throughout the 1960s. The Snells and Marvis's brothers, Graham and J.T. Reeder, ran Reeder Ranch and Dairy and Reeder Farm, with citrus and vegetable lands. The businesses also owned and operated Airport Manatee near Piney Point and Port Manatee. His wife Mavis wrote Testimony to Pioneer Baptists, published in 1974. He helped her research her second book on The Gillette Cemetery, published nearly thirty years later, in 2002. Their son Rand Snell was editor. Son Rand served as aide to Senator (later Florida Governor) Lawton Chiles in Washington D.C. and was a study director in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in the late 1980s before running in 1992 for the newly created 13th District seat in the U.S. Congress. He lost out to Dan Miller.
Manatee County Dairy Farmers Association
Reeder, Mavis (Mrs. Randolph Snell)
Snell, Jacob Randolph
Snell, Mavis Reeder
United States
Florida--Manatee County--Palmetto
Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection