OBIT: Albert C. SNYDER, 1891, formerly of Blair County, PA

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Local Brevities.

  Mr. A. C. Snyder, son of Mr. Jacob Snyder, of this city, died at 
Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, of pneumonia on the 23d inst.  Mr. Snyder 
has been a resident of Cheyenne for the past twenty-one years.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, March 25, 1891

THE LATE A. C. SNYDER.
An Appropriate Tribute to His Memory by a Western Editor.

  The TRIBUNE recently made brief mention of the lamented death of A. 
C. Snyder, son of our townsman, Jacob Snyder, which occurred at his 
home in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the 23d inst., after less than a week's 
illness.  Mr. Snyder was born in Huntingdon, this state, and was aged 
46 years and 5 months at the time of his death.  He became a telegraph 
operator, but upon the breaking out of the war he joined the union 
army.  When it was discovered that he was an operator he was 
transferred to that branch of the service and had many strange 
adventures and hair-breadth escapes.  For two years after the close of 
the war he was a resident of New Orleans, afterwards coming north.  
Twenty-one years ago he went west and settled in Cheyenne, returning 
the following year to marry Miss McCrum, who returned with him to his 
western home.  For fourteen years he was in the employ of the Western 
Union Telegraph company, for four years was postmaster of Cheyenne, and 
was engaged in the grocery business at the time of his death.  He was 
deeply interested in the public schools, was a consistent member of the 
Congregational church and superintendent of the Sunday school.  He is 
survived by his wife and six children - five boys and a girl.
  The Cheyenne Daily Leader, to which we are indebted for the above 
facts, pays the following tribute to his memory:
  "The death of A. C. Snyder is a distinct loss to this community.  
Identified with Cheyenne almost from its inception his figure has long 
been a familiar one to every resident.  The example which he leaves 
behind him, both in his public and private record, is a precious 
heritage to his children and well worthy of general emulation.  A man 
of strong religious character, he was never obtrusive in promulgating 
his beliefs or forcing his opinions on those who might differ from him.  
In all of his affairs, he was intensely practical.  He had a cool, 
incisive way of getting at the core of any question under discussion 
and when his opinion was asked, as it often was, he expressed himself 
frankly without any circumlocution.  He was essentially honest with 
himself and in all his relations.  With cant or hypocrisy he had little 
patience.
  "In his manner he was undemonstrative, but beneath it there beat a 
warm heart that keenly sympathized with human suffering.  His hand was 
ever ready to do a kind deed, and having done it, he speedily forgot 
it.  Few men in the community were more universally esteemed.  Strongly 
pronounced in his political convictions, he yet enjoyed the respect and 
confidence of those most ardently opposed to his party.  They could all 
appreciate the transparent honesty and integrity of his character and 
the high motives which actuated him.
  "The profoundest sympathy of this community goes out to Mrs. Snyder 
in her affliction.  She has nobly labored side by side with her husband 
for the past score of years and to her unceasing and loving labor can 
be attributed some of his success and the most of the happiness he 
experienced during years when physical suffering was frequently his 
lot."

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, March 31, 1891

1860 Altoona, Blair County census -
Jacob Snyder, 40  
Margaret Snyder, 34  
Albert C. Snyder, 15, telegraph operator  
Amelia Snyder, 13  
Venetti Snyder, 12  
Otto Snyder, 10  
Elizabeth Snyder, 8  
Jacob Snyder, 6  
Margaret Snyder, 1  

1880 Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming census -
N. [sic] C. Snyder, 36, telegraph operator  
P. M. Snyder, 40  
Otto R. Snyder, 9  
Isabel C. Snyder, 5  
Roscoe P. Snyder, 3  
Carl Snyder, 1