BIO: Orlando C. SNYDER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 67.
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  ORLANDO C. SNYDER, engineer of the pumping station, Huntingdon, Pa., was 
born in Indiana, Indiana county, Pa., October 28, 1846.  He is a son of John 
D. and Ann Eliza (Shearer) Snyder.  His paternal ancestors were German, 
though his father, as well as his mother, was a native of this country.  
Three of their children are deceased, two having died early; the living 
children are:  Mary Jane, Mrs. William Greg, of Saltsburg, Westmoreland 
county; Ann Eliza, Mrs. John Hoffman, of Ellsworth, Pierce county, Wis., 
deceased; John D., of Braddock, Allegheny county, Pa.; Belmina, widow of 
James Ganey, residing in Indiana, Indiana county; Elizabeth (Mrs. James 
Smith), of Indiana county, Pa.; James, residing in Illinois; Lucinda, of 
Ellsworth, Wis.; Orlando C.; and William, of Philadelphia.  The mother, Mrs. 
John D. Snyder, died in Westmoreland county, in 1868; three years later, in 
June 1871, Mr. Snyder was accidentally killed by a stationary engine, in 
Allegheny City, Pa.
  Up to the age of twenty-five, Orlando C. Snyder passed his life in the 
town of Indiana, receiving his education in the public schools of that 
place, and there learning the business which has been his vocation 
throughout life that of a machinist and stationary engineer.  For two years, 
the defense of the Union called him from his business pursuits.  He enlisted 
in 1863, in Battery G, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and served until 
mustered out in Philadelphia in July 1865.  In 1871 he removed from Indiana 
to Latrobe, Westmoreland county, and from that place, two years later, to 
Black Lick, Indiana county, which was his home for fourteen years.  Since 
1887, Mr. Snyder has been a resident of Huntingdon, and for the past six 
years has been chief engineer of the Huntingdon Water Department.  Mr. 
Snyder's political preferences are Republican.
  On July 23, 1866, Orlando C. Snyder was married in Indiana, Indiana 
county, to Mary M., daughter of John and Deborah (Sebring) Caldwell; she was 
born June 17, 1849.  Their children are:  Minnie Belle (Mrs. Harry 
Sinclair), born September 26, 1869; John T., born December 25, 1874, died 
February 1, 1876; Annie D. (Mrs. Floyd Miller), born June 25, 1875; Cora 
Agnes, born September 24, 1877; Frank H., born March 24, 1879; and Vaughn 
C., born September 13, 1886.  Mr. Snyder and his family attend the Methodist 
Episcopal church.