Samuel Snyder

BLAIR, SNYDER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/13/2004 at 21:25:49

S. Snyder, Winterset, grocer; born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1826, and emigrated
to Missouri in 1833, and remained there until his removal to Polk county in 1847, and was for a time was engaged in carrying the mail from Des Moines to what was known at the time as Montepelier P.O., four miles east of the present city of Winterset; he is the oldest merchant in the city, having been in business since 1856; he married Miss J. Blair in February, 1857; she was born in Indiana; has five children: Mary, Jennie, Sula, Clara and Jessie; lost one son: Austin.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 552