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GEORGE W. SNYDER was born in Lyons, Wayne county, N. Y., in 1849. He is the son of Sidney W. Snyder, of the same place, and a resident until 1850, when he moved to Branch county, Mich., where he resided until 1876, engaged in farming and blacksmithing. From Michigan he moved, with his family, consisting of wife and two children, to Buffalo county, Nebr., locating on section 20, township 9, range 18 west. For years S. W. Snyder has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was a local preacher for about fifteen years. Mr. Snyder is a republican in politics. In 1848 he was married to Miss Susan Gordon, a native of Lyons, and a very exemplary lady. She was also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a quiet but active christian woman. She was born in 1830 and is the mother of four children, viz. — George and Adelbert, living in Buffalo county, Nebr.; Myron and Sarah, who both died when young. George Snyder, the subject, was about one year old when his parents moved to Michigan, where they remained until 1876. He began for himself as an engineer, when twenty-two years of age. For three years he had charge of an engine in a saw-mill and then, for four years, was on one of the steamers plying between Chicago and Buffalo. He was once on a vessel that was wrecked near Ashtabula, Ohio, and out of the crew of eight, five were lost. The steamer was out from twelve o’clock at night until three o’clock the next afternoon in cold November weather, and only one-half a mile from shore. Mr. Snyder is a member of the masonic order and, in politics, is a republican. In 1879 he was married to Miss Laura Magden, of Buffalo county, Nebr. She was born in Wayne county, N. Y., in 1842, and lived there till five years of age, then came to Nebraska in 1878; has taught school in four states, namely — Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a great worker in the church and Sunday-school. To Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have been born three children, viz. — one that died before being named; Robert, born in 1883, and Gordon, born in 1887, both living at home.