GEORGE
ANDREW SNYDER is one of the progressive farmers of Delaware township.
Peter Snyder, his father, was born March 30, 1816, in Dauphin county,
Pennsylvania, and coming to Mercer county, this state, in 1858, he
located on a tract of land in Delaware township. He followed farming
and stock raising there until his death, which occurred on the 31st of
December, 1897, at the age of eighty-one years, nine months, one day.
He had married Elizabeth Sweigard, born in Dauphin county,
Pennsylvania, October 31, 1826, and she died on the 26th of October,
1900. Her father was a prominent and well known farmer of Dauphin
county.
Unto Peter Snyder and his wife were born nine
children, as follows: Catharine, deceased: Mary, the wife of N. H.
Sweigard, a farmer of Delaware township; Philip, who married Jennie
Bortz, and their home is on a farm in Pymatuning township; Sadie, wife
of Joseph Page, a retired farmer living in Fredonia; William, who
married Laura Ransom, now deceased, and his home is in Greenville;
Peter Washington, born February 22, 1862, died February 22, 1884, aged
twenty-two years; George Andrew, who is mentioned below; Emma, wife of
John Hurst, of Greenville; and Carolina, deceased. Peter Snyder always
voted the Republican ticket, and he and his wife were members of the
German Reformed church.
George Andrew Snyder, born November 8,
1864, was born on the farm where he has always resided and which he now
owns, being one of the best known and most successful farmers and stock
raisers of Delaware township. On the 25th of December, 1889, he was
married to Emma Seem, born in Hickory township, of Mercer county, to
Solomon and Lydia (Zimmerman) Seem, farmers of that township. To this
union one child was born, Leo La Monte, born July 31, 1898, but the
wife and mother is deceased. On the 11th of January, 1900, Mr. Snyder
wedded Sarah Celestia Kremm, who was born in Otter Creek township,
April i8, 1868, and who at the time of her second marriage was the
widow of S. F. Kremm, who died March 6, 1896, and by whom she had the
following children: Mellila Diannah, wife of Wade Stoyer, of
Greenville; Lauretta, wife of William Stoyer, a farmer in Pymatuning
township, who has one child, Kenneth William, born June 19, 1908;
Arthur La Monte; and George Franklin Kremm.
Mrs. Snyder is a
daughter of John P. and Harriet (Reichard) Kerschner, in whose family
were eight children: Rev. U.0.H. [Kershner], a minister in
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania; Virena Ennetta; Clara Cetta; Helen Susanna;
Sarah Celestia; Rev. William Henry [Kershner], of Rural Valley; Alvin
Elias [Kershner], of Cleveland, Ohio; and Harriet Louise. John P.
Kerschner, a carpenter by trade, died May 18, 1892, in politics he was
a stanch democrat, and both he and his wife were members of the German
Reformed church. She died on the 7th of July, 1908.
George Andrew Snyder is a Republican in politics and he and his estimable wife are also members of the German Reformed church.
Source: Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909, pages 865-866
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