Sedgwick Snedeker ’33

Sned died May 8, 2001, of pneumonia. He was 92. He lived in Laurel Hollow, Long Island and Palm Beach, Fla. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton he was on the varsity track team, the football squad, and crew squad. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1936. Sned was the third member of his family to practice law with the firm Snedeker and Snedeker in Brooklyn. Sned specialized in real estate law. He successfully argued O'Neil vs. Brooklyn Savings Bank before the U.S. Supreme Court. He later practiced law with Paul O'Dwyer. The two of them managed to change the official founding date of New York from 1664, when the British landed, to 1625, when the Dutch landed. These two also incorporated Dutch emblems into the seal of New York. He worked for the Salvation Army and enjoyed tennis and sailing.

Sned is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Naudin, and two children from his previous marriage, Thomas Steele and James Phyfe. He is also survived by three stepchildren, 10 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1933