San Benito County CA Archives Biographies.....Snibley, Jacob 1835 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 17, 2007, 11:52 pm Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893) JACOB SNIBLEY, ESQ., was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1835. He is the third child in the family of Jacob Snibley, deceased. (See sketch of William Snibley.) Our subject spent his boyhood in Du Page county, Illinois. He then removed to Joliet, Illinois, where he learned the carpenter trade; here he remained three years and then returned to Du Page county, same State, where his father was then living. In 1856 he emigrated to Wisconsin and spent two years at Waukesha, and from there he went to Kansas, where he remained sometime. In 1873 he came to San Benito county, and located at Fairview, near Hollister, where he rents a fertile and well-cultivated farm of 359 acres. Mr. Snibley is an unassuming man and is justly popular among a large circle of friends. Mr. Snibley was married, in Kansas, in 1859, to Maria Richards, a native of Michigan. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California. Illustrated. Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent Citizens of To-day. HENRY D. BARROWS, Editor of the Historical Department. LUTHER A. INGERSOLL, Editor of the Biographical Department. "A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants."-Macaulay. CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1893. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sanbenito/bios/snibley491gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb