the near future (this would not happen until 1946), Snell decided to retire. After his retirement in 1939, he became publisher of the Potsdam Courier-Freeman, which he had bought five years earlier, and in 1941 became owner and manager of the New York State Oil Company, of Kansas. After his death in Potsdam, New York, in 1958, he was interred in Bayside Cemetery. Bertrand H. Snell Hall at Clarkson University is named in his honor. Further reading Barone, Louis A. "The Fighting Lumberjack: Bertrand H. Snell of New York and the New Deal, 1933-1939," in Milton Plesur, ed., American Historian: Essays to Honor Selig Adler (1980), pp 159–66. Sources 1870 births 1958 deaths People from St. Lawrence County, New York Amherst College alumni Businesspeople from New York (state) Minority leaders of the United States House of Representatives Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) People from Colton, New York