N.S. Snyder
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives
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N.S. Snyder, M.D.--Prominent among the members of the medical 
profession of Montana, is Dr. Nicholas S. Snyder of Anaconda.
The doctor is a Kentuckian. He was born in Carrollton, Carroll 
County, July 21, 1847, son of James S. and Annie (Hubbell) 
Snyder, father a native of Virginia and mother a native of 
Kentucky. James S. Snyder was for a number ofyears a 
successful businessman of Louisville. He died in 1889 in 
his sixty-fifth year. His widow survives him and is now 
sixty-five years old. Their seven children are all living, 
our subject being the oldest.Dr. Snyder was educated in 
Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee. In 1864 he enlisted in 
the Confederate Army as a cavalry man under General 
Forrest and served in Alabama and Georgia, participating 
in much hard riding and fighting; escaped wounds and 
capture and was mustered out in Alabama, in April 1865. 
After the war had ended he attended school two years and 
then read, medicine in the office of Dr. William F. Miller 
of Louisville, Kentucky after which he attended the 
Louisville Medical College and graduated in 1874. He 
began his professional career there, and afterward 
practicedin Colorado and Nevada up to 1884, at which 
time he came to Montana.It was in 1886 that Dr. Snyder 
began his practice at Anaconda. Here he soon secured a 
large and lucrative practice and here he has since 
resided. Soon after his arrival in Anaconda he built 
the Anaconda Hospital and ran the same successfully 
until 1889, at which time the Sisters started St. 
Ann's Hospital. He became their physician and converted
his own hospital into the Commercial Hotel. Besides 
this property Dr. Snyder has also made investments in 
other city real estate, all of which are growing in 
value.He was married in 1888 to Lizzie Irvine, the 
first white child born in Butte City and the daughter 
of Caleb E. Irvine, a Montana pioneer. Her untimely 
death occurred September 15, 1889 when she gave birth 
to their child, Eness Ewing; and the loss of his 
charming young wife was a source of great bereavement 
to the Doctor. 

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