Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Snyder, Elmer A. August 28, 1861 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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Elmer A. Snyder
	Elmer A. Snyder, son of Joseph and Caroline (Delph) Snyder, was born 
in Sterling, Illinois, on August 28, 1861. His parents removed with their 
family to Nebraska City, Nebraska, when he was nine years old, and in that 
place he received a good common school education. He followed farming while in 
this section and was very successful. In the course of a man's career how 
often is it seen that the one who will put forth the needed determination to 
attend to one calling and to do that well, is the one who is the markedly 
successful man. Some men say such an one is "lucky." To define that kind 
of "luck" we should say that it is the power of determination in a man to 
attend to business with activity, judgment and concentration. If that is luck 
then luck is the product of the sterling qualities of worth. Such are the 
qualities of our subject and it is due to such that he has made a fine success 
in life as a business man and financier. It was in 1888 that he turned from 
the corn fields of Nebraska and began a search for an other kind of farming. 
He desired to bend his energies to another department of his chosen calling. 
He saw the broad prairies of Umatilla county and found that the soil was 
especially adapted to wheat raising and that the climate was congenial to his 
tastes, and here he made a selection of land. His good judgment and wise 
foresight are manifest in his selections no less than in his excellent way of 
operating his farm since. He purchased eleven hundred and fifteen acres of 
land six miles north from Pendleton, and has been farming this continuously. 
He is enabled to attend to it in person and sees that every point is properly 
looked after. His care of details is one of his features of success.  Wheat 
raising occupies him largely, but he also raises sufficient stock to help keep 
his large farm in good order. He has improved his place in keeping with his 
other thrift and it is really a pleasure to inspect his comfortable house, 
large barns and good outbuildings, all kept in tasty order and in a manner 
commensurate with his general work. He is a man that manifests as lively an 
interest in the affairs of the county at large as in his own, and brings the 
same good, practical judgment to bear in their adjustment that he ever does in 
personal matters. Especially in his interest manifest in attending to school 
affairs. He is a member of the Masonic order.
	In September, 1884, he was married to Miss Maggie, the daughter of 
Conrad Schomerus. They have five children: Caroline, Joseph, Marie, John, 
Herman.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 

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