William J. Sneed

William J. Sneed (1835 - March 17, 1907) was an American Confederate veteran, surgeon and educator. He was the co-founder of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee; it was the first medical school in the South for African Americans.

Early life William J. Sneed was born in 1835 in Brentwood, Tennessee. He graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Nashville. He was appointed as Professor of Anatomy in 1873. He continued after this university department was renamed as the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

After his first wife's death, the widower Sneed married Fannie Sullivan in 1903. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Master Mason in Freemasonry.

Death Sneed died on March 17, 1907, in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 72. He was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.