Christian Snyder and Jane McCormick

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Husband Christian Snyder ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1818 - Saxony, Germany
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           Died: 20 Jan 1904 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 2
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Wife Jane McCormick ¹

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           Born:  - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA
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           Died: 24 Oct 1886 1
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         Father: Provance McCormick (1799-1887) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Susan Bowers (1800-1868) 1 2 5

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Children

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1 F Mary Snyder ⁶

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2 F Lillian Elizabeth Snyder ⁶

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         Spouse: Charles L. Gray (      -      ) 6

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3 M George B. Snyder ⁶

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           Died: 7 Aug 1909 6
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4 M Henry Provance Snyder ^{6 7}

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           Born: 2 Aug 1856 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Jane Roberts (      -1902) 8
           Marr: 24 Aug 1886 8

         Spouse: Katherine Frances McIntyre (      -Aft 1908) 7 8
           Marr: 25 Jan 1905 8

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General Notes: Husband - Christian Snyder

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He was born in Saxony, Germany. He received his education in the public schools of that country and learned the trade of stonecutter. He served the required term in the militia, and his military papers indicated that he was a model soldier as well physically as mentally. His environment ill-suited his ambitions, and in 1845 he emigrated to America. The Pennsylvania railroad was then under construction and he found employment at his trade on a section of the line at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He followed the railroad work westward, and in 1850 he was in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in the capacity of a successful contractor, having in five years mastered the language of the country and the business of building its railroads. A few years subsequently he moved to Connellsville, where he secured extensive contracts for building the Pittsburgh & Connellsville railroad, subsequently absorbed by the Baltimore & Ohio system. Here he married and settled down, though his business for some years took him to distant states, where he constructed many miles of railroad. Later there was plenty to engage his attention at home. The coking business developed and he built many coke plants and bridges throughout the county. One of his prominent but profitless bridge-building achievements was the Steubenville bridge of the Panhandle railroad, which at the time was one of the wonders of bridge construction because of its height and length. The company failed and the contractor got little money and not much honor. He continued in active business until the age of seventy-six, when, in a hale and vigorous old age, and under some protest, he retired. He was naturalized in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1853. He was a Democrat in politics, but not a strong partisan, and never sought public office, though he was twice chosen a member of the city council. He was a member of the Lutheran faith.

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 451.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 391.

3 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 365.

4 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 449.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 21.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 393.

7 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 470.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 394.