Merced-Stanislaus County CA Archives Biographies.....Snyder, John Frank 1861 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

JOHN FRANK SNYDER

   A pioneer of California of the early eighties, John Frank Snyder was born in
Trenton, Canada, on February 24, 1861, the son of Bliss and Phoebe (Smith)
Snyder, farmers, who located at Syracuse, N. Y., where the father died at the
age of forty; the mother lived to reach her seventy-second year. Their children
living are: Mary, Caroline, Elizabeth and J. F. The fourth in a family of seven
children, John Frank Snyder was thrown upon his resources at the age of fifteen,
having attended the public schools up to that time. For the first two years he
worked on farms near Syracuse, then went to Detroit, Mich., where he was
employed until he became of age. In 1881 the urge was too great and he came to
California and took up government land in the foothills back of Crow's Landing,
proved up on it, working around on ranches in the meantime, and then sold. In
1888 he leased the Ben Crow ranch of 640 acres and raised grain until 1897. Mr.
Snyder helped build the first dairy barn used for a commercial dairy business on
the West Side, that of Giovannoni and Crow. In 1897 he came into Merced County
and, eight miles west of Ingomar, bought a section of land, to which he added
another parcel at a later date; here he has engaged in raising grain and stock
and has set out fifteen acres of walnuts. He now owns 640 acres of land where he
resides.

   On April 14, 1888, J. F. Snyder was united in marriage at Crow's Landing,
with Miss Jean Niddrie, born at that place, the daughter of George and Ellen
Niddrie, natives of Scotland and Ireland, respectively, who came to Crow's
Landing in 1869 and settled in the hills west of that place. Her father was a
farmer and stock raiser and lived to be seventy-five years of age; her mother
died at the age of forty-five. Mrs. Snyder's half-brother, Joseph, is also
deceased. She attended the schools at Crow's Landing and here her marriage
occurred. There have been nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Snyder: George died
at the age of ten years; Harry married Aileen Heacox and they have a son, Joseph
Franklin; Ruby, became the wife of E. H. Osburn of Newman and has two children,
Emerson Page and Robert Niddrie; Hazel, married Robert Butts of Gustine and has
two children, George Edmund and James Robert; Helen M., married John Butts of
Cloverdale and has one daughter, Dorothy Jean; Helena May, a twin of Helen M.,
died in childhood; Nellie, Mrs. Robert Osburn of Newman, has a son Donald Cress;
Howard F.; and Genevieve Louise. Mr. Snyder is a Democrat. Fraternally he
belongs to Hills Ferry Lodge No. 236, F. & A. M. at Newman. For twenty-five
years he has served as a trustee of the Occidental school and for ten years of
the Gustine Union High School.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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