This is the oldest living son of Dennes and Sally Snyder, and was born in Warren County, New Jersey, December 9, 1850. The poverty of his parents necessitated his early application to work of the farm, and he was thus debarred from the educational privileges which even those times all afforded. His entire School days would not cover period of six months, and what education he possessed was learned in the schools of actual life and experience. Coming to Michigan with his parents, at the age of eighteen, he applied himself once the subjugation of the forest, and help to make the first extensive clearing in the Township of Addison. Becoming of age the year the town was organized, Mr. Snyder cast his maiden vote at his first election, and is ever since preserved his interest in the affairs of his town and state; and has had various offices of honor and trust bestowed upon by his townsmen. At the age of twenty-two, on the seventeenth day in November, 1838, he married miss Mary Boice, daughter of Nicholas Boice, who was then seventeen years old. Eight children have been born as the fruits of this marriage: Dennes , December 1, 1840; Miranda, November 13, 1844, married Merritt Walker; Jacob, August 10, 1846; Sarah Jane, September 9, 1848, married Charles Joslyn; Emma L. December 22, 1850; Eliza A., February 23, 1853, married Ezra Newman; Hulda S., May 7, 1854, married Abraham Close; Cornelius, August 15, 1863. Mr. Snyder is a thrifty, well-to-do farmer, who has succeeded in life, but attributes his success solely to patient, steady work, and industrious, frugal habits.
An image of his residence here. In 1963 the house and barks were still standing, by 1980, it appears that only the foundations were left.