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J. H. SNOOK, brick, tile and wagon stock manufacturer; Union City; born in Frederick Co., Md., July 2, 1829; at 19 years of age, he learned the tanner’s trade, which he followed for seventeen years in Washington Co., Md.; he then followed farming several years, and in the spring of 1875 he emigrated to Ohio and located in Union City, where he engaged in the manufacture of brick, and the first two years made upward of 700,000, for which he found a ready sale; in 1877, he purchased the tile factory of George Dutro and connected the same with his other business; the quality of his tile is equal to any manufactured in Darke Co., his sales amounting to $5,000 yearly, of tile alone; he has also erected a building 30x80, two stories high, for the purpose of manufacturing wagon stock, to which he has added an engine room 30x40, with an engine of fifty-horse power. Mr. Snook is one of the most enterprising and active business men of Union City and gives employment in his brick and tile factories to thirteen men, which will be largely increased when his factory, for the manufacture of wagon stock is in full operation. In 1853, he married Sylvia Keyser; she died in 1863; his second wife was Lydia Dutro, a native of Maryland; eight children by each union, of whom nine sons and two daughters are now living, all of whom are living at home, except the second son, who is a blacksmith at Hill Grove.