Northumberland-Lancaster County PA Archives Biographies.....Schneder, Charles B. 1861 - 

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REV. CHARLES B. SCHNEDER, pastor of St. John's Reformed Church of Shamokin, is a

son of Baltzer and Elizabeth (Bowman) Schneder, and was born January 5, 1861, at

Bowmanville, Lancaster County, Pa. His education began in the public schools of

his native township and was continued at the Keystone State Normal School of

Kutztown, Pa., where he took part of his preparatory course. He afterward took a

course at the academy at Lancaster, Pa., after which he entered Franklin and

Marshall College, from which he graduated in 1885, being a salutatorian of the

class. He then entered the Eastern Theological Seminary at Lancaster, Pa., from

which he graduated in 1888. On July 15, 1888, he was ordained and accepted as

his first field of labor the Pine Grove charge, Schuylkill County, Pa. This

charge consisted of five congregations, all surrounding Pine Grove. He remained

connected with that parish until 1891, at which time he was chosen to fill his

present responsible position in Shamokin.



  Since his connection with the church in Shamokin our subject has been an

untiring worker and has built the present edifice, costing about $30,000. When

he accepted the charge at St. John's the congregation numbered 456 members. Rev.

Schneder is a man of pleasing address; he is generous and liberal in his

sentiments, positive in his convictions, and firm in expression of his views. He

has ever exhibited the genuineness of religious experience by living a true

Christian life, and by his earnest efforts has added to his flock until his

congregation now reaches a membership of 950, while his Sunday School numbers

about 1,000. Rev. Schneder keeps abreast of the times by having all the

subsidiary organizations connected with the church. He has served the church as

a delegate to the district and general synods. He has served on the board of

beneficiary education and as a member of the board of trustees of the East

Susquehanna classis, of which he is a member, and while in Schuylkill County was

stated clerk of the classis.



  Rev. Schneder is purely of German origin. The Schneder family in this country

was founded by John Schneder, who came from Germany and located near New

Holland, Lancaster County, Pa., where his remains lie buried. He was one of the

earliest pioneer settlers and became a tiller of the soil; his broad acres were

not easily counted, and late in life he was enabled to build a large,

comfortable and substantial homestead, and within its doors strangers as well as

old-time friends were entertained with generous hospitality. His eldest son was

called Jacob, whose son, Baltzer, was the great-grandfather of our subject.



  Amos Schneder, son of Baltzer and grandfather of our subject, was born and

reared in Lancaster County, Pa. He was a veterinary surgeon and farmer and lived

to the age of ninety-one years. His son Baltzer, our subject's father, was born

in 1831 and still lives at the old homestead on his grandfather's farm enjoying

the peaceful and quiet life of a farmer. He was originally a shoemaker, but

later in life engaged in farming, and has since resided on the old homestead

farm. He has taken a very active interest in church affairs, and is a firm

believer in the doctrines of the Reformed Church of the United States. He is

serving as an elder of that church at the present time. He was united in

marriage with Elizabeth Bowman, a pious lady, and their home was blessed by the

presence of four sons and two daughters. Of these Sarah, the wife of James K.

Fox, lives in Missouri; David B. lives in Sendai, Japan, where he is occupying

the chair of dogmatic theology in the Reformed Theological Seminary; Charles B.

is our subject; Mary B. is the wife of David B. Bender, lives in Lancaster

County, Pa.; Amos B. is at present a member of the junior class in Franklin and

Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., is living temporarily in that city; and Martin

died in childhood.







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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)









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