Alpheus Henry Snow

Born in 1859 and educated at Yale, he built a career as a lawyer while also writing on public law and international affairs. Available sources connect him closely with Yale even after his death: a Yale memorial page notes that the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize was established in his memory by his wife, Margaret Maynard Butler Snow.

His books and essays focused on government, democracy, and the structure of relations among nations. That makes him especially interesting as a writer from the years just before and after World War I, when many scholars and reformers were trying to imagine more stable forms of international order.

Reliable biographical details online appear to be limited, so some parts of his life are less well documented in easily accessible sources than his published work and memorial record.