Antes Snyder and Emma F. Evans

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Husband Antes Snyder ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 Dec 1836 - Selinsgrove, Snyder Co, PA 2
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         Father: George Antes Snyder (1799-1865/1866) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Ann(a) Ellen Duncan (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1866 3

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Wife Emma F. Evans ^{2 3}

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         Father: Robert Evans (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Fanny Hiestand (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Fannie E. Snyder ^{2 3}

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2 F Ellen D. Snyder ³

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            AKA: Ella Snyder 2
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3 M Henry Snyder ²

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4 M Antes L. Snyder ^{2 3}

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5 M Robert Snyder ²

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6 F Emma Snyder ^{2 3}

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General Notes: Husband - Antes Snyder

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He was educated at West Point, where he graduated with high honors, and was sent by our government to England on business connected with the railway system, then in its infancy here. He was the engineer who designed and built the large stone bridges over the Schuylkill at the Falls and Peacock's Lock, above Reading, and one at Schuylkill Haven and a number of small ones along the line of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.

He was the child Mrs. Carson wished to kidnap in order to obtain from Governor Snyder the pardon of Smith, who was under sentence of death at Philadelphia.
He died in December, 1861, in Pottstown, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [But this is completely contradicted by another source.]

He was reared at Selinsgrove and Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and received his early education in the public schools of the former and the private schools of the latter place. Leaving school, he studied civil and topographical engineering with his uncle, Capt. Pollston, who was a graduate of West Point Military academy and a civil engineer on the Reading railroad. After completing his studies with his uncle he was engaged in the engineering department of the Reading railroad and remained on that road as an engineer until 1857. He then went to Farrandsville, Clinton County, where he assumed charge of a rolling mill and coal mines, which were well understood to be the individual property at that time of Christina, queen of Spain. In 1859 he left Farrandsville and went to New Jersey, where he had charge of the construction of the railroad from Millville to Cape May. In 1863 he came to Blairsville, Pennsylvania, and completed the construction of the Western Pennsylvania railroad from Blairsville to Allegheny city, which had been undertaken by the Northwestern railroad company, which had failed when the road was nearly graded. After the completion of the last-named road he removed (1869) to Freeport, Armstrong County, and was in charge of the construction of the Butler Branch of the Western Pennsylvania R. R. In 1871 he left the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad company and was engaged for two years in the lumber business, first at Freeport and then in Pittsburgh. In 1873 he again accepted service with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was stationed by the company at Springdale, Allegheny County, from 1873 to 1876, and in Johnstown, Cambria County, from 1876 to 1879. Beginning in the last-named year he resided at Blairsville and was in charge of the office of engineer of the right of way.
He was a republican in politics. He was a warden and vestryman of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church, and owned a pleasant and comfortable home at Blairsville. [BHCIA, 206]

1 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 1480.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 221.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 206.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1099.