Snyder, Catherine & Dan - heirs - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The following Associated Press dispatch from Warsaw will be of peculiar interest in Montgomery County, as the parties most concerned hail from this place:

“A novel and interesting story has come to light in this city with the discovery that Mrs. Catharine Snyder, of this city, is the principle, probably the only, heir of Robert Morris, the revolutionary financier. During the Revolution Morris made loans to the National Government aggregating about $100,000. With interest this now amounts to about $1,000,000. The government has found Mrs. Snyder is the granddaughter of Mrs. Robert Morris. Her father, James Morris, who died about seventy years ago in Middletown, O., it has been proved, was the only son of Robert, who left issue. Mrs. Snyder was born in Middletown, O.”

Mrs. Snyder’s maiden name was Catharine Morris and she was the daughter of James Morris, of Middleton, O. When he died she came to this county and made her home with John Snyder, who lived out on Black Creek. She married Karl Snyder, who with his brother, Benton, operated the Snyder mills at Yountsville for some time. Later Karl and his wife moved to Warsaw, where he engaged in the barbering business. The article is away off, however, in assuming that Mrs. Snyder is the only heir. Her brother, Dan Morris, of Black Creek neighborhood, is just as much of an heir as she is and will get just as big a slice of the divvy if one is ever made. If Dan gets his hooks on $500,000, the boys will expect him to give the grandest blowout in the history of the county.

Robert Morris, the ancestor in question, was a Quaker, but was in the keenest sympathy with the struggling colonists during the Revolutionary War. His timely advance of the $100,000 referred to is generally conceded to have been all that at one time kept the colonial army together. But for his aid the struggle would have terminated disastrously to the cause of freedom.