Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Cryder, Eugene G 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Cryder, Eugene G. - Among the representative agriculturists and stock raisers 
of Grundy County, who has long been connected with extensive operations in 
land and stock, and is well known in public life, is Eugene G. Cryder, owner 
of a handsome property in Saratoga Township.  Mr. Cryder is a native of this 
township, having been born on the farm he now occupies, February 22, 1860, a 
son of Michael and Rachel (Thomas) Cryder, natives of Ross county, Ohio.

The paternal grandparents of Mr. Cryder, Henry and Mary Ann (Hess) Cryder, of 
Philadelphia, Pa., came in 1833 to Aux Sable Township, Grundy County, 
traveling across the country in a prairie schooner and here preempted land.  
Michel Henry Cryder, the father of Eugene G., was born March 21, 1820, and 
died January 31, 1894.  He was married in Morris, Ill., March 7, 1841, to 
Rachel Thomas, who was born May 16, 1817, and died January 26, 1908.  After 
their marriage they settled down first in Aux Sable Township where he farmed 
some years, but subsequently came to Saratoga Township, where he purchased 
land in the prairie, from his father-in-law, John Thomas, and this he improved 
and kept adding to it until he owned about 900 acres in one body.  He was a 
general farmer and stock raiser, and his business ventures proved uniformly 
successful.  He and his wife had the following children:  Eliza, born January 
3, 1848, who died August 27, 1854; Francis M., born November 18, 1849, who 
died September 3, 1854; Lewis H., born June 25, 1853, who died August 21, 
1854; Edwin T., born June 29, 1855, living in Saratoga Township; Eugene C.; 
and Maryette, born October 25, 1857, who is now Mrs. W. L. Wainwright of 
Morris.

Eugene C. Cryder was educated in the district schools and the Normal school at 
Morris, and until his marriage resided with his parents.  On December  23, 
1884, he was united with Jennie Elizabeth Smith, who was born November 29, 
1863, at Plattville, Kendall County, Ill., daughter of Gideon Smith, born 
April 2, 1825, in Howard Township, Center County, Pa., and Mary E. (Boyer) 
Smith, born in Center County, July 18, 1832.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith were married 
in Plattville, Ill., in January, 1854, where he engaged in farming all his 
subsequent life.  Mr. Smith died July 9, 1909, and his wife, June 19, 1893.  
After his marriage, Mr. Cryder took up his residence on a part of his father's 
land in Saratoga Township, and in 1894 located on the old homestead, which he 
has since conducted with well deserved success.  A man of honorable business 
principles, his reputation for integrity and probity is far reaching, and he 
has many friends throughout this part of the State.  Mr. and Mrs. Cryder have 
had the following children:  Sida May, born September 29, 1885, who died 
August 17, 1887; Ethel Maud, born August 9, 1887, who is now Mrs. Donald 
Pyatt, of Fortville, Ind., has one daughter, Jena, born September 26, 1913; 
Mildred Harriet, born October 29, 1892, who died May 3, 1906; and Ray Eugene, 
born November 18, 1897, at home.  Mr. Cryder and his family are connected with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church.  A Republican in politics, he has served ten 
years as town clerk, was supervisor for a long period, county surveyor for two 
years and chairman of the board of supervisors for a lengthy period.  In his 
official capacities he devoted himself faithfully to the discharge of his 
duties, and no citizen has rendered his community more signal service.

page 796

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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