BIO: T. Lansing SNYDER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 526.
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  T. LANSING SNYDER, one of Clearfield's representative business men who is 
prominently identified with many important interests of different kinds, was 
born in Clearfield County, Pa., December 10, 1860, and is a son of Thomas G. and 
Martha E. (Litzenberg) Snyder.  On the paternal side his grandfather was David 
Snyder, once a well known manufacturer and the founder of the Swedenborgian 
Society in Pennsylvania.  On the maternal side his grandfather was John 
Litzenberg, and one of his great-grandfathers was John Stanley, who came from 
Derbyshire, England, to Pennsylvania with one of the Penn colonies.
  T. Lansing Snyder was but two years old when his father met a soldier's death.  
He continued with his mother and when he grew to the age of responsibility took 
charge of her large and important interests, including the management of 
extensive timber tracts and of coal lands of great value.  In 1884 the 
Bloomington Coal Company leased a large portion of the rich coal property and 
named their first mining town in honor of T. Lansing Snyder.  Mr. Snyder has 
many individual business interests.  He is a director in the Brick and Fire Clay 
Company, of Clymer, Ind.; vice president of the Clearfield Brick Manufacturing 
Company, of Clearfield, and is officially and otherwise interested in numerous 
other concerns.  He has always been an active and useful citizen but has never 
been willing to accept city offices.  During the legislative session of 1897, he 
was appointed to the office of sergeant-at-arms, at Harrisburg, by Hon. Frank G. 
Harris, and performed the duties of that position acceptably.  The Snyders have 
been generous in their donations of land for public purposes, the mother of Mr. 
Snyder being much interested in the establishing of schools and churches.
  On June 28, 1893, Mr. snyder was married to Miss Cora May Ealy, who was born 
December 25, 1867, in Bedford County, Pa.  Her parents were John C. and Mary E. 
(Walker) Ealy.  Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have had two sons, Stanley G. and Thomas L., 
the former of whom is deceased.  The latter is a sturdy little lad of four 
years, his birth having taken place March 6, 1907.  Mrs. Snyder is a member of 
the Presbyterian church and is active in the work of its various benevolent 
organizations.  The family home is a mansion situated in S. Second Street, 
Clearfield.