Lewis County, West Virginia         Biography of J. P. SNYDER

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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. 464
Lewis

J. P. SNYDER. Lewis County honors J. P. Snyder for
length of years, industry and faithful performance of duty,
his military record as a soldier of the Confederacy, and
good citizenship at all times.

Mr. Snyder is still living in the house where he was
born, January 7, 1839, son of Peter and May C. (Stone)
Snyder. His father was a native of Highland County and
his mother of Pendleton County, old Virginia, and after
their marriage they settled in Lewis County, in what is
now West Virginia, in 1837. Peter Snyder acquired 400
acres of land when he came to Lewis County, and out of
the prosperity he gained he subsequently owned 640 acres
and was a man of substance and high standing. He was
a democrat in politics and a member of the Methodist
Church. His first wife died, and he then married a Miss
Flesher, and by that union had one child, Peter Snyder,
Jr. By his first wife, Miss Stone, there were six children:
Saloma, who became the wife of Daniel Hoover; Jeremiah;
Hezekiah and Uriah, both deceased; Josiah P.; and Mary
C., deceased.

Josiah P. Snyder grew up on the home farm, acquired
a good education in the nearby schools, and his duties and
interests were largely centered at the old homestead until
the outbreak of the Civil war. He then joined the Con-
federate Army, was in the commissary department under
General Jackson, and was in the struggle until the close.
He was in several battles, but was never wounded. After
the war he resumed his place on the home farm, and has
steadily carried on his industry as a general farmer and
stockman. He has 600 acres in Lewis County, his home
being two miles from Weston, on the Parkersbnrg and
Weston Pike. Mr. Snyder is a democrat.