JOHN SNYDER was born in Mifflin County, Penn., September 22, 1821, and is the elder of the two children yet living born to Henry and Christina (Rothrock) Snyder. Henry Snyder died when his son. John, was but six years old; the latter remained with his mother until thirteen, and then went to serve a three years' apprenticeship to a tanner; he followed the trade as a journeyman for a number of years, and then started a tannery of his own in Huntingdon County, which he operated about three years and then sold, and in 1847 came to Union Township, this county, where he bought 275 acres of land, on which he lived until the spring of 1876, when he sold out and bought 200 acres in Liberty Township, on which he has ever since resided, with the exception of two years, from March, 1881, to March, 1883, when he was the Superintendent of the County Poor Farm. In December, 1840, be married Nancy Way, who bore him six children, three of whom are still living. Two of the boys served during the late war, and one, Henry W., died soon after his return from disease contracted in the army. Mrs. Snyder died in August, 1852, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. February 23, 1854, Mr. Snyder married Nancy J. Bratton, who has borne him seven children, of whom four are yet living. In politics, Mr. Snyder is a Democrat, and Mrs. Snyder is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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