Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Snyder, Jacob G. 1833 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Jacob G. Snyder, farmer, Newtown, son of Christian and Jane (Wright) Snyder,
was born in Washington county, Maryland, March 9, 1833. His grandfather, Jacob
Snyder, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and fought before Baltimore in the
defense of that city, when the British general Ross was killed. This occasion
was the origin of the national song of the "Star Spangled Banner." Francis S.
Key, of Baltimore, went on board the British fleet to negotiate for the release
of some prisoners, and was detained by the admiral until the conclusion of the
attack on Fort McHenry. It was while awaiting, with the thrilling anxiety which
those noble lines express, the issue of the bombardment, that he composed that
inimitable battle hymn, so unrivaled for pathos, sensibility, and the fire of
holy patriotism. In 1853 Mr. Snyder came west to Fountain county, and worked the
first two years by the month; then he rented land until 1868, when he bought his
farm of forty acres. When a young man he learned the miller's trade, but has
followed it only a single year since his residence in Indiana. He was married
November 1, 1855, to Mary Ann Miller, daughter of Daniel Miller, who settled on
Dry Run in 1834. She was born April 28, 1836. They have four daughters and one
son: Ruth Jane, born October 14, 1856, wife of Milton Emmons, of Attica; Czar
T., November 30, 1858; Dora, October 18, 1861; Maggie, May 10, 1865; and Delia
L, December 25, 1868. All this family are professors of religion. The father was
in the communion of the United Brethren church from 1851 to 1868, when he joined
the Presbyterians. He was a licensed preacher from 1865 to 1868, and several
years before had been licensed by quarterly conference "to preach and exhort."
He organized the first Sabbath-school at the Union Cemetery church, which was in
1870. He was superintendent there seven years, at the Dry Run school-house two
years, and at the Voorhees school-house one year. His wife and the children
belong to the New Light church. In politics he fraternizes with the green
backers. In the winter of 1853-4 Mr. Snyder was a scholar at the log
school-house in the Riley neighborhood in the south part of Richland township.
Next winter he taught in the same place, and "they organized a debate." In the
course of a discussion a "tall sycamore," to give emphasis to his position and
statements, in a gust of tumultuous eloquence, leaped upward clear from the
floor, and to his sudden surprise struck his head with much force against the
ceiling, which brought down the house in a scene of uproarious amusement. The
next Saturday that ceiling was raised by nailing the boards to the rafters. John
Shade did it.



Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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