Henry Provance Snyder and Jane Roberts

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Husband Henry Provance Snyder ^{1 2}

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           Born: 2 Aug 1856 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: Christian Snyder (Abt 1818-1904) 3 4
         Mother: Jane McCormick (      -1886) 3

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       Marriage: 24 Aug 1886 5

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   Other Spouse: Katherine Frances McIntyre (      -Aft 1908) 2 5 - 25 Jan 1905 5

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Wife Jane Roberts ⁵

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           Died: 1902 5
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         Father: David Roberts (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Josephine Emery (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Jean Snyder ⁵

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           Born: 1887 5
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General Notes: Husband - Henry Provance Snyder

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He was educated in the public schools and at Mount Pleasant Academy. At the age of fifteen he became his father's principal assistant in the management of his numerous interests. He acted as bookkeeper and paymaster and did most of the clerical work. Just prior to this time he graduated from the commercial school of Thomas P. Forsythe, a famous teacher of his time. Upon completing the course Mr. Snyder was presented with a certificate stating that he was competent not only to keep books, but to open and close them and "to settle deranged partnership accounts." This knowledge served him in good stead subsequently, when his activities brought him in contact with numerous diversified industries and actual connection with not a few. In 1878 he began the study of law in the office of P. S. Newmyer, of Connellsville. In 1879 the Connellsville Tribune became financially involved and was sold by the sheriff to satisfy the claims of creditors. The machinery and materials were purchased by a small group of progressive and public spirited Connellsville business men, who felt that a dead newspaper did not indicate a live town. The paper was renamed The Courier and Mr. Snyder, who had joined in its purchase, was requested to become its editor. He consented to so act temporarily, little doubting, in the large confidence of youth, his ability to become a successful lawyer and editor at one and the same time. It soon dawned upon him that he could not serve both mistresses. He abandoned the law and devoted his energies to making The Courier what some of the highest critics subsequently declared to be "a model weekly paper." He became sole owner of the paper in 1891. In 1902 a daily edition was established, which soon acquired a phenomenal circulation. A Sunday edition was added in 1906, but the panic of 1907 so limited its advertising revenues that it was discontinued. The Courier is a prosperous and influential newspaper. The weekly edition is a recognized authority on the statistics of Connellsville coke production and output, its figures having for years been accepted as authoritative by the coke and iron interests, and by the industrial bureaus of the State and the United States and due credit given therefor in their official publications. In addition to the management of his newspapers Mr. Snyder was connected more or less actively with numerous other business interests. He has been engaged in the lumber business in Pennsylvania and the rice business in Louisiana; he mingled in the management of various industries from a tin plate plant to a ferry company; he was a bank director and manager of building and loan associations; he was secretary of the first chamber of commerce established in Connellsville, and was for a time president of the present reorganized chamber; he was secretary and a life trustee of the Carnegie Free Library, and a trustee of the Cottage State Hospital. He was active in newspaper association work. He was prominent in the affairs of the National Editorial Association; served as president of the Pennsylvania State Editorial Association early in its career, and was later president of the Western Pennsylvania Associated Dailies, which included all the leading daily newspapers of western Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Snyder was very much interested in local history, and made some valuable contributions thereto in the columns of The Courier. A concise but comprehensive historical address on the life and services of Colonel William Crawford, delivered before the Washington County Historical Society, February 22, 1909, excited widespread favorable comment, and applications for printed copies were received by the author from historical societies and universities all over the country. In politics Mr. Snyder was a man of strong convictions and earnest purposes. He was reared a Democrat and continued in that faith until 1896, when he refused to support the Free Silver platform of the Democratic party and identified himself with the Gold Democracy. Four years later he supported the Republican ticket, and he has been of that political faith since.

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

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 470.

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

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

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