Lewis County, West Virginia    Biography of George SNYDER, M. D.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 158


GEORGE SNYDER, M. D. In the county where he was
born and reared Dr. George Snyder has practiced medi-
cine and surgery with credit and success for upwards
of thirty years, and he ranks high among the professional
men of Weston and his public spirit in community affairs
has been on a par with his professional enthusiasm.

Doctor Snyder was born on a farm two miles north-
west of Weston, October 24, 1863, son of Robert and
Lucinda (Fisher) Snyder. His mother was a native of
Lewis County, while his father was born in Rockingham
County, Virginia, and was brought as a boy to Lewis County,
West Virginia. The parents of Doctor Snyder died when
he was an infant, his mother in 1865 and his father in
1866. George was the youngest of three children.  As
orphans they were reared in the home of their maternal
grandmother Fisher.

Dr. George Snyder had the farm as his youthful environ-
ment, and his opportunities in the public schools improved
him so well that he qualified as a teacher and for two
years taught school. For one year he attended the Glen-
ville Normal, and then began the study of medicine with
Dr. W. Gaston of Clarksburg.  After his preliminary
studies he entered medical college in the fall of 1887, was
graduated in 1889, and for eight years he conducted his
private practice at Freemansburg in Lewis County. From
1897 to 1899 Doctor Snyder was assistant superintendent
of the West Virginia State Hospital. On retiring from
that office he located at Weston, where he has now prac-
ticed for twenty-two years, and his office has always been
in the same building.

He married Lulu Gibson, daughter of J. J. Gibson.
She became the mother of four children: Ava, a graduate
of the Weston High School and of the Mountain State
Business College at Parkersburg, is the wife of Charles
A. Jennings, of Akron, Ohio; Madge, a high school gradu-
ate and a graduate of St. Joseph's School for Nurses at
Baltimore, is the wife of J. B. Brown; Robert G. graduated
from high school, spent one year at Randolph-Macon Col-
lege, then attended Washington and Lee University, and
is now in the Government service in the Philippines; Wilma,
the youngest, is a high school graduate. After the death
of the mother of these children Doctor Snyder married,
March 28, 1907, Irene B. Turner. They are members of
the Baptist Church. Doctor Snyder is a past chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, a republican, and is a
stockholder in the Lewis County Bank.