Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Snyder, Amos H.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   AMOS H. SNYDER farmer, P.O. Quakertown, is a grandson of 
Andrew Snyder, who was born in Deux Ponts, Alsace-Lorraine, 
in 1739 came to America in 1759 and settled in Richland 
township, where he purchased four hundred acres of land, a 
part of which is now owned by Charles Frick. Andrew Snyder 
enlisted in the Continental army and served four years.  He 
was for two years provision forwarder and afterward fine 
collector until the close of the war, and in the discharge 
of his duties was for months compelled to sleep in thickets 
and other places of concealment.  At the close of the war 
there was due him from the government $3,300, which proved 
to be worthless, and in consequence he lost his land.  He, 
however, succeeded in redeeming his home, upon which he 
settled.  He married Margaret Jacoby, by whom he had five 
sons and six daughters.  He died October 26, 1815, aged 76.  
The names of his children were:  Frederick, Henry, Andrew, 
George, John, Margaret, Annie, Mary, Susan, Magdalena and 
Jane.  All of them settled in the state excepting George, 
Mary and Susan, who moved to Richland county, Ohio.  John 
Snyder, father of Amos H., was born about the year 1782 in 
Richland township and married Elizabeth, daughter of John 
Hinkle, who also served through the revolution.  Neither he 
nor the elder Snyder ever drew a pension.  John Snyder 
settled on the Hinkle homestead.  He died in April, 1840, of 
typhoid fever.  His wife died of the same disease in the 
following December.  Eleven children survived them:  
William, Lydia, John, Tobias, Sarah, Caroline, Amos H., 
Andrew, Catherine, Thomas and Joseph.  Of these but two are 
now living.  Amos H. was born on the Hinkle homestead 
December 18, 1821, and in December, 1848, married Mary Ann, 
daughter of John and Barbara (Kline) Blank.  After his 
marriage he engaged in farming.  In 1876 he came to Richland 
township and located on the farm he now owns.  Of eight 
children born to him four are living:  Monroe B., Warren B., 
Robert B., and George B.  Clementine, who died at the age of 
23, was a teacher.  Oliver B. was also a teacher and died 
aged 26.  Monroe B. graduated in 1872 at the University of 
Michigan, Ann Harbor, and is now a professor of astronomy in 
the Central High school of Philadelphia.  He married Susan 
Chaplin Berry in 1882 and has two children:  John Amos and 
Francis Berry.  Warren B. married Flora Fellman in 1883 and 
has two children:  Blanche and Irene.  George and Robert are 
single.  The Snyder family are members of the Lutheran 
church.