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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 545]

    GEORGE D. SNYDER, an extensive farmer of Cherokee County, was born
    in Union County, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1815, and is a son of GEORGE
    and ANNA (OEKER) SNYDER, natives of Pennsylvania.  The SNYDER family
    were prominent in early days in Pennsylvania, SNYDER County being
    named for them.  The grandfather of our subject was a soldier in
    the War of the Revolution.  Mr. SNYDER was reared to farm life, but
    at the age of eighteen years he abandoned this occupation, and learned
    the trades of painting and chair-making, which he followed for some
    time.  He was married March 27, 1839, to Miss MARY LINSEY, a native
    of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of JAMES and RACHEL
    (CLUSEN) LINSEY, also natives of Pennsylvania.  Like many families in
    that section of the country the SNYDERS were anxious for a better
    chance to make a home for themselves, and convinced that that oppor-
    tunity could be found in the West, they removed to Wisconsin in 1856
    and settled in La Fayette County; there they lived until 1871, when
    they came to Cherokee County and bought 240 acres of land in Sheridan
    Township.  Some time later they sold this, and in 1876 Mrs. SNYDER
    purchased their present home of JOHN HARRIMAN; there are 320 acres
    in this place, and later she bought eighty acres known as the GOUGH
    farm.  This is one of the best-improved farms in the county, having
    many conveniences and luxuries not found in much older localities;
    there is a good residence, a beautiful grove of eleven acres, a most
    luxuriant vineyard, a great variety of small fruits, and a splendid
    orchard.  The farm is convenient to the town of Cherokee, being only
    one and a half miles distant.  Mr. and Mrs. SNYDER have eight chil-
    dren: CYRUS, a resident of Cherokee; JEMIMA, wife of P. STONE; HENRY,
    living in Chicago; AMANDA, wife of W. P. ROBINSON; BRITON, at home;
    CASSIE, deceased; CHARLES, of Denver, Colorado, and NETTIE, wife of
    W. T. RAY.  Mr. and Mrs. SNYDER are industrious, energetic people,
    and have done their duty to their children and the community in
    which they live.  They are justly numbered among the leading people
    of Cherokee County.


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