Husband Hon. Daniel John Snyder 1 2
AKA: John D. Snyder 3
Born: 17 Nov 1867 - Penn Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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Father: David L. Snyder (1833-1896) 1 2 4 5 6
Mother: Mary Ann Kline (1838-Abt 1927) 1 2 4 5 6
Marriage: 22 Oct 1910 2 6
Wife Esther Winifred Fowles 2 3 6
Born: 11 Feb 1880 3
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Father: Reuben M. Fowles ( - ) 7
Mother: Orpha Ann Whitehill (1849- ) 8
Children
1 F Eleanor A. Snyder 2
AKA: Eleanor G. Snyder 6
Born: 1913 2
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2 M David John Snyder, Jr. 2 6
Born: 1916 2
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Daniel John Snyder
He received his early education in the public schools of Penn Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and at the Greensburg Seminary. He graduated from Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, in 1892 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and from the Law School of Yale University in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Later he received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Heidelberg University, and in 1938 was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Franklin and Marshall College. In the year 1896 he was admitted to the Westmoreland County bar and practiced law in Greensburg. In 1907 he formed a partnership with J. R. Smith which continued until 1919, when he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County. In 1921 he was elected president judge of the Orphans' Court of Westmoreland County for a term of ten years, and in 1931 he was reelected for another term of ten years. In line with his profession, he was a member of the Westmoreland County Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
He was always an active member of the Republican party, and represented his district in the State Legislature from 1915 to 1919.
Judge Snyder was a lifelong member of the Reformed Church in the United States and, as such, became deeply interested in the movement to unite this church with the Evangelical Synod of North America. From the inception of these negotiations to their final consummation in 1934, under the name of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, he was a member of the Committee of Church Union, and chairman of the Legal Committee, and was quite active in bringing about the union of churches. He was three times elected vice-president of the United Church, which was the highest office to which a layman could be elected by the denomination. He was also a member of the executive board of the Churchmen's Brotherhood, and an elder in the First Reformed Church of Greensburg. For many years he was the teacher of a very large adult Bible class. He was also a member of the Kiwanis Club, a thirty-second degree Mason, and an officer in the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Derry, Pennsylvania.