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Can any one ID the following mentioned John Snyder?
Biography of William Snyder, pages 934 / 935. History of De Kalb County,Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.
William Snyder, one of the leading blacksmiths of Auburn, Ind., was born in Morrow County, Ohio, June 17, 1841, the eldest son of John and Mary (Helt)Snyder; the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Germany. They were early settlers of Morrow County, Ohio, and in 1844 moved to DeKalb County, Ind., and a year later to Allen County where the father died in 1849, and the mother still lives. Their family consisted of eleven children, six sons and five daughters, ten of whom are living, one son having died in the defense of his country. William Snyder was reared in Allen County, and when seventeen years of age came to De Kalb County and learned the trade of a blacksmith. After the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company E, Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry, and served three years, participating in eleven active engagements, the more important being Perryville, Stone River and Chickamauga. He was discharged June, 1865,
and returned to Allen County where he remained till Feb. 8, 1866; then he was married, and moved to De Kalb County and lived four years at Spencerville. In 1873 he removed to Auburn where he has since lived and has built up a large trade. He is a skillful workman and does a general business in repairing. His shop is located on Eighth street and is convenient to the business center of the town. He has a pleasant residence and a good farm of forty acres of choice land in De Kalb County, Ind. His property he has earned by industry and frugality, his father dying when he was but eight years of age. He was married Feb. 4, 1866, to Elizabeth Garland, a native of Zanesville, Ohio, born May 20, 1847; and to them have been born five
children---Edward, born Nov. 14, 1866, and died July 12, 1873; James, born July 19, 1868; Maggy, born June 21, 1870; Lilly, born May 20, 1874; Sarah, born Feb. 10, 1876.
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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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