BIO:  Daniel K. SNYDER, Highland Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 454

DANIEL K. SNYDER, miller, P. O. Gettysburg, was born in the county November 25, 
1824, a son of George and Susan (Fair) Snyder.  His father, also a native of 
Adams County, a farmer by occupation, served in the war of 1812, resided nearly 
all his life in the neighborhood of Bonneauville, and died in 1865.  His mother 
was a native of Maryland, and died in 1859.  Daniel K. was reared on a farm and 
remained with his parents until he was twenty years of age.  He then learned the 
miller’s trade, and worked three years in the mill; then learned the mason’s 
trade, which he followed for nine years and taught school during the winter 
seasons.  He married, May 30, 1866, Mary A. Deardorff, who has borne him seven 
children:  Elizabeth M., Susan C., Sarah E., Agnes H., Georgie L., Jacob D. and 
Harry L.  After marriage he went to farming in Franklin Township, this county, 
where he remained five years; then moved to Gettysburg, and after one year 
returned to Franklin Township, where he remained eight years.  In 1879 he moved 
to where he now resides and bought the Gleenwood Mills, on Marsh Creek, which he 
has operated ever since; he conducts both a grist and saw mill.  This mill is 
said to have been in operation during the Revolution, and ground food for the 
soldiers.  Mr. Snyder owns eighty-three acres of land, which he farms in 
connection with his mill.  He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.