Barton County, Missouri Biographies-A. H. Snyder

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 947, 948

A. H. Snyder, of the firm of Snyder, Patrick & Horton Loan Company, of the wholesale 
liquor firm of A. H. Snyder & Co., was born in the State of New York, on the 5th of 
February, 1849, being a son of C. G. and W. A. (Cuyler) Snyder, who were also born in 
York State.  They resided in that State until 1855, when they moved to Northern Illinois, 
thence, in 1864, to Michigan, and, three years later, to Dade County, Mo., but are now 
residing in Kansas.  The father has been engaged in merchandising the greater part of 
his life, but while living in Illinois followed the occupation of farming a part of the 
time.  In 1874 he represented Dade County in the State Legislature, being elected by 
the Democrats, of which party he has been a member for many years.  A. H. Snyder, the 
eldest of his two children, a son and a daughter, received his education in the common 
schools.  Toward the close of the war a man offered $1,100 for a substitute, and although
only sixteen years of age, Mr. Snyder immediately accepted the offer, and enlisted in 
Company K, Fifteenth Michigan, and served until the close of the war.  Upon his return 
home he entered Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Chicago, Ill., graduating in 1867, 
and shortly after went to Dade County, Mo., where he first engaged in farming, then in 
merchandising in Cedarville, and later in Stockton.  In 1884 he came to Lamar, and, after 
merchandising for one year, engaged in the wholesale liquor business.  In January, 1889, 
he, George Patrick and George Horton formed a loan company, and are still thus associated.  
Mr. Snyder is a Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity, and in his political views is a 
Democrat.  In 1867 he married Miss Harriet Enos, a native of Michigan, by whom he has two 
children: George and Mabel.

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