Jacob Snyder

As printed in 1901

JACOB SNYDER.

The subject of this review is successfully engaged in farming on section 36, Otter Creek township, where he owns eighty acres of rich farming land under a high state of cultivation. He is a native of France, born in the province of Alsace, November 18, 1834, and is a son of George and Madeline (Schilein) Snyder, who spent their entire lives in that country. In their family were eight children, five of whom came to the United States and are now living in different parts of the country.

Jacob Snyder passed the days of his boyhood and youth in his native land. With the hope of bettering his financial cmdition in America, he crossed the Atlantic and landed in New York city at the age of nineteen years, h'nr aliout three years he w I ired in the Empire state and then came to Iowa, locating in Scott county, where he was engaged in farming upon rented land for some time. In 1860 he came to Linn county, and purchased his present farm in Otter Creek township, to the improvement and cultivation of which he has devoted his energies ever since. In connection with general farming he is also engaged in stock raising to some extent.

At the age of twenty-nine, Mr. Snyder was married in Davenport, Iowa, to Miss Annie M. Sclniff. liy whom he had seven children, all still living, namely: George, a painter by trade residing in Marion, Iowa; Philip, a well drilled and tanner of Ottum- \va, Iowa; Henry, who married Lilly White and is working in an elevator in Alburnett; Lizzie, wife of August Wolff, a farmer of Murray, Iowa; Anna, wife of Oscar Smith, of the same place; Emma, wife of Jeff Williams, a farmer of Pomerou, Wasliington; and Jacob, who assists his father in the work of the home farm. Mrs. Snyder, who was a consistent Christian, a devoted wife and loving mother, died in December, 1894, and was buried in Otter Creek township. For his second wife our subject married Miss Julia Hunt, who died in 1897, and was also laid to rest in Otter Creek township. On the 13th of December, 1897, Mr. Snyder was again married, his third union being with Mrs. Sarah A. ( Hewett ) Humphrey, widow of Myron Hiunphrey. By her former maria.ge she had three children, namely: Carrie lay. now the wife of Jacob Biber, a farmer of Maine township, this county; John, a farmer of Montana; and Eva, wife of Judson Benson, a farmer of Alontana.

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As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.