HENRY M. SNYDER is descended from a pioneer family of Washington county. He is a grandson of John and Margaret Snyder, whose early lives were passed in eastern Pennsylvania, where the grandfather followed the tanner's trade. He afterward moved to Washington county, and became identified with the earliest history of Fallowfield township. He was a Democrat in politics, and in church connection a member of the Lutheran Society. John Snyder died December 24, 1867, in his seventy-seventh year, and July 23, 1876, his wife was laid beside him, having passed her seventy-sixth birthday. They were the parents of six children. Peter Snyder was born February 23, 1833, in Fallowfield township, Washington county, Penn. He assisted his father in the tannery from early boyhood, and after receiving a limited education, followed shoemaking for thirty-five years. Upon attaining his majority he was married to Julia Ann Crabb, who bore him the following children: Josephine (Mrs. Stacker), Alexander, Daniel, Lucretia (Beazell), John (deceased in 1891, at the age of thirty-five years), Henry M., George B., Franklin P. and James S. Henry M. Snyder, son of Peter Snyder, was born February 22, 1860, on the home place in Fallowfield township, Washington Co., Penn. He received a common-school education, and following the example of his forefathers, learned the tanning trade. In 1882 he was united in marriage with Cynthia V. (Bentley) Van Voorhes, and settled on the fifty acres of land on the Washington pike, in Carroll township, where he is yet living. He was formerly engaged in general farming, but of recent years has given his principal attention to the dairy business. The place is equipped with excellent buildings, and is a pleasant, elegant home.

Text taken from page 479 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed June 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published June 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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