Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 494
JONATHAN J. SNYDER

Jonathan J. SNYDER, who was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1853, accompanied his parents (see Lewis Snyder above) to Harison County, about 1857, settling at Magnolia, and entered the mercantile business, continuing in the same until 1860, when he went to Modale where he bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres of wild land. Upon this he built a frame house 16x24 feet, together with an addition. Forty-five acres of this land were under the plow. After a year he went to Missouri Valley, remained one winter, and traded his farm near Modale for a farm in Boyer Township, on section 9, which he improved and lived in until Febryary, 1889, at which time he rented his farm and removed to Woodbine, where he bought a residence, which he subsequently traded for the farm upon which he now (1891) lives, on section 15, Boyer Township, which was improved at the time, containing a good house, barn and bearing orchard, together with small fruit.

Our subject was married November 15, 1878, to Miss Effoe C. LUKE, of Woodbine, by whom one child has been born, Clyde A., born September 24, 1888. Mrs. SNYDER was born in Onondago County, New York, August 27, 1859, where she remained until 1870, and then came to Harrison County with her sister, Mrs. EGERTON, with whom she made her home until the date of her marriage, her mother having died when she was about eight years old.

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