Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Snyder, Stephen 1834 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

STEPHEN SNYDER is a well-to-do farmer residing on section 29, Juniata Township,
Tuscola County, where he has forty acres of good and well-cultivated land. He
has, moreover, a comfortable and attractive dwelling, and in fact all things
that make rural life a desirable one. He is a son of William and Margaret
Snyder, natives of Columbia County, N. Y., where Stephen also was born on the
26th of March, 1834. He was reared on a farm and lived with his father until he
was twenty-two years of age, at which time he started out in life for himself.
He had the advantage of a common-school education.

  December 25, 1872, our subject was married to Martha Moore, like himself a
native of New York State, and a daughter of John Moore. Mrs. Martha Snyder died
May 13, 1874, leaving to her bereaved husband one son, John W., who was born in
New York, September 12, 1873. In the spring of 1881 Mr. Snyder came to Tuscola
County, and located on the farm where he now resides, purchasing forty acres and
clearing it all. In May 3, 1882, he was happily married to his present wife, who
was a Mrs. Julia E. Fitch, a daughter of Warren Cheney, and the widow of Lucis
Fitch. He has erected a new home upon the place which is beautified by the
skillful hands of his amiable wife, whose merits as a housewife are known
throughout the locality. Their enjoyment of the good things of life is a lesson
to those who are restless and discontented.

  Mr. Snyder is a Democrat in his political belief, and is a thorough advocate
of the principles as set forth by his party. Socially he is a member of the
Patrons of Industry, and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
By her first marriage she had two children, Willis J. and Mrs. Lucy Merrit.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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