Berrien County MI Archives Obituaries.....Snyder, Frank E. December 23, 1905
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Berrien Springs Journal Era, Dec. 28, 1905, page 1
Berrien Springs Journal Era, Dec. 28, 1905, page 1

THE DEATH OF FRANK SNYDER, Memories of a Young Man Well Known in This Community

	Frank E. Snyder was born in this village Dec. 23, 1867, and died in Chicago Dec
23, 1905.  He was buried from the home of A.B. Ayers, his uncle, Christmas day.
 He was educated in our public school and at Kalamazoo, Mich., and had displayed
a remarkable aptitude for mathematics and turned his attention to civil
engineering in early life.  He was so well equippeed by nature and education
that he rapidly rose in his profession and, although still a young man, he was
near the top at the time of his death.
	He was a member of the American Society of Engineers, and the  Engineers Club
of Chicago, and at the time of his death was principal assistant engineer of the
Santa Fe railroad system.
	In 1902, on the anniversary of his birth, he married Miss Marie Frankhouser of
Chicago who survives him.  No children have been born to them.  His death is a
terrible blow to his father, Peter Snyder, who lives over in the bend of the
river, as of his four sons but one is now left alive. John, Harry and now Frank
have followed thier mother to the grave.   George is left as his father's only
prop in his declining years.
	Frank was one fo the most promising pupils that ever completed a curriculum in
our village school and he was likely to reach the summit of his profession much
earlier in life than most great engineers.
	Mr. Snyder will long be remembered and mourned by all his friends, but perhaps
more especially by the young men of this community many of whom he assisted to
better positions, showing a rare unselfish interest in their advancement.  To
many his death comes as a distinct personal loss.  He was faithful to every
trust, true to his friends, and one whose untimely death is most deeply deplored.

Additional Comments:
To clarify reference: Olive V. Armstrong, sister of mother Eliza Armstrong,
married Almond Bell Ayers in Berrien County, March 15, 1876.

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