Los Angeles-San Bernardino County CA Archives Biographies.....Snyder, William P. 1869 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    WILLIAM P. SNYDER, well-known citizen of Santa Monica, is a native of the
state of Michigan and was born in the town of Marshall, Calhoun county,
September 20th, 1869. His father, Porter Snyder, was one of the pioneers of
Calhoun county and located at the then new town of Marshall, on timbered land
which he improved, and also engaged in the building business. He was an
enterprising and successful man of affairs, and served for a time as sheriff of
Calhoun county. He was a son of George W. Snyder, a native of Holland, who with
his parents came to America and settled in New Jersey, and soon thereafter
removed to New York and located on wild land in Seneca county. During the war of
1812 with England, he served as a scout. It may be said that he was a soldier of
fortune since he was three times captured by the Indians and once barely escaped
burning at the stake. After the war he returned home, where he lived until his
death at ninety-four years of age.

    Porter Snyder, by a second marriage, to Sarah J. Eddy, had three sons and
one daughter. Two of these sons, George D. and William P., the subject of this
sketch, are leading citizens of Santa Monica. When about fifteen years of age
William P. Snyder went to Jackson, Mich., and served an apprenticeship aŁ
painting. In February, 1890, he came to California and located in San
Bernardino, where he served the Santa Fe Railway Company as foreman of painting
in the bridge and building department, having charge of all work on the lines
between Barstow and San Diego. In 1895 he resigned his position and began
contract painting in Los Angeles. In 1900 he was one of the first to locate in
Santa Monica and engage in the business during the earliest clays of its
phenomenal growth. He took an active part in the building and civic development
of the embryo city. In the year 1901 he executed contracts in his line on about
one hundred and twenty-five cottages, employing a small army of men. In 1904 he
retired from the business and has since then held a responsible position with
the mercantile house of Devore & Pettis, Santa Monica. In 1892 he married Miss
Helen M. Schoch of Marshall, Mich., and a native of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder
have four children, Catharine, Paul, Philip and Zada. Mr. Snyder in 1908 was
appointed a member of the Santa Monica City Board of Education, vice A. B.
Clapp, resigned, and is a most efficient and affable officer.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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