John Bricker Snider^{[1, 2, 3]}

1840 - 1917  (77 years)

• Name	John Bricker Snider
  Born	25 Aug 1840	St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Gender	Male
  Business	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	John B. Snider - office, school, church and lodge furniture
  		Waterloo-JohnB.Snider-0001-Sketch-Factory-fromWaterlooBirdsEyeMapabout1892-1.jpg John B. Snider Factory - Waterloo Bird's Eye Map about 1892
  Rsrch. Note	1. John Snider was born 25 AUG 1840 in Waterloo Co, ON, and died UNKNOWN. He married Susannah Moyer 7 AUG 1860 in Berlin, Waterloo Co, ON, daughter of William Moyer and Mary Erb. She was born 25 AUG 1842 in Berlin, Waterloo Co, ON, and died UNKNOWN. Children of John Snider and Susannah Moyer are: 2 i. Hattie Snider was born 8 MAR 1861 in Waterloo Co, ON, and died UNKNOWN. 3 ii. Martha Snider was born 5 NOV 1863 in Waterloo Co, ON, and died UNKNOWN. 4 iii. Lizzie Georgina Snider was born 11 OCT 1866 in Waterloo Co, ON, and died UNKNOWN. 5 iv. Annie Florence Snider was born 30 DEC 1869 in Waterloo Co, ON, and died UNKNOWN. 6 v. Vivian Snider was born 21 SEP 1872 in Waterloo Co, ON, and died UNKNOWN
  Residence	1851	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	Mennonist
  Residence	1860	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6, 13]
  Occupation	1861	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Clerk
  Residence	1861	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1871	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [12]
  	Merchant
  Residence	1871	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [12]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1881  [5]
  	store keeper
  Occupation	1881	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	Store Keeper
  Occupation	1891	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [11]
  	Store Keeper
  Residence	1891	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [11]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1911	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  	Manufacturer
  		John B. Snider's business envelope 1902
  Residence	1911	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  	Methodist
  Eby ID Number	00106-5893
  Died	4 Oct 1917
  Buried	Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I9270	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Jacob C. Snider,   b. 12 Jan 1822, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 12 Mar 1857, Desjardin Canal, Near Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario  (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Anna "Nancy" Bricker,   b. 29 Jul 1820, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 8 Mar 1909  (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F1746	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susannah Ellen Moyer,   b. 25 Aug 1842, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 21 Apr 1931  (Age 88 years)
  Married	7 Aug 1860	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15]
  Children	1. Harriet "Hattie" Snider,   b. 8 Mar 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 14 Sep 1948  (Age 87 years)   2. Martha Snider,   b. 3 Nov 1863, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 25 Aug 1964  (Age 100 years)   3. Elizabeth Georgiana "Lizzie" Snider,   b. 11 Oct 1866, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Apr 1953, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec  (Age 86 years)   4. Anna Florence Snider,   b. 1869, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Mary Snider,   b. 1869, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Annie Florence "Florence" Snider,   b. 31 Dec 1869, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 Jul 1945, Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 75 years)   7. Vivian Ione Snider,   b. 22 Sep 1882, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 21 Oct 1882, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F2693	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  John B. Snider, "was born August 25th, 1840. On August 7th, 1860, he was married to Susannah E. Moyer. They reside in the town of Waterloo where he is engaged in business. His family consists of five children" Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.]. _______________________ JOHN BRICKER SNIDER The Sniders are a numerous and important family in Waterloo County. The ancestor of many of them was Christian Schneider, who was born in Pennsylvania 1758 and died in Waterloo County 1850. He came from Pennsylvania in 1806, settled, and built the fine timber house still standing near the village of Doon. One generation further back we find the progenitor Jacob Schneider, born in the Palatinate, who came to Pennsylvania as a boy. With Christian Schneider from Pennsylvania came his son Jacob C. Snider, born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 1791, who married in 1812 and shortly after took a farm a little west of what became the town of Waterloo, later acquired the Waterloo grist mill, had also a sawmill and a distillery, and lived in the village, his house being on the site of the present Waterloo town hall. One of his younger sons, Jacob C. Snider, Jr., was born in 1822, married Nancy Bricker, resided later in St. Jacobs where he had the mill, and lost his life in the Desjardins canal disaster, near Hamilton, March 12th., 1857. The subject of our sketch, the second son of Jacob C. Snider, Jr., was born in Waterloo, August 22nd., 1840, and died there October 5th., 1917. At the time of his father's tragic death he was at the Rockwood Academy, then a school of wide and deserved reputation. His grandfather took charge of the mill in St. Jacobs, but young John left school and for a few years was employed in the store of Bemis and Chalmers in St. Jacobs. On removal of the family to Waterloo he became accountant in the mill, formerly owned by his grandfather but then by Moyer, Ralph and Company, where he remained for a number of years. About 1864 he became the partner of the late John Shuh in a general store and was in this business for over thirty years. He sold his interest in the store about twenty years ago and purchased the manufacturing plant of the Graybill Manufacturing Company, which he carried on successfully till 1916 when he disposed of his interest to the Snyder Desk Co. His retirement marked the completion of over fifty years of trading and manufacturing activity, during the latter part of which he carried on 'the manufacturing of office, school and church furniture, which business developed to large proportions under his direction. Mr. Snider was a member of the Methodist church in Waterloo. In politics he was a Liberal. He never took prominent part in public affairs. While of a retiring disposition he was a man of energy and enterprise, and of integrity of character. John B. Snider married Susannah E. Moyer, August 7th., 1860. Mrs. Snider and four daughters survive. Fifth Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society 1917

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 309. [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 109. [S3002] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 11539-86. George Wegenast, 26, occ. Accountant, b. Berlin, res. Waterloo, son of Mathias and Saloma, married Hattie Snider, 25, b. Waterloo, res. same, daughter of John B. and Susannah, Witness: Dr. Amos F. Baumann, A. Harvey Devitt, Bertie Buckborough and Martha Snider, All of Waterloo, 8 Sept 1886 at Waterloo [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 277. [S276] Census - ON, Waterloo - 1881, Census Place Waterloo, Waterloo North, Ontario Film 1375901 District 162 Sub-district D Division 1 Page Number 31 Household Number 139. Census Place Waterloo, Waterloo North, Ontario Family History Library Film 1375901 District 162 Sub-district D Division 1 Page Number 31 Household Number 139 [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library. John B. Snider aged 20 of Waterloo Twp. born Waterloo Twp son of Jacob Snider and Anna Bricker married 7 Aug 1860 to Susanna Moyer aged 18 of Waterloo Twp born Wilmot Twp daughter of William Moyer and Margareth Erb. [S302] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1881, Waterloo Village 1881 Div. 1 Page 31. [S141] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1851, Div. 3, Pg. 5. [S366] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1911, Div. 42 Page 7. [S1885] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1861, Waterloo 1861 Dist. 1 Page 5. [S1573] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1891, Section 3 Page 31. [S2658] aaaaWaterloo Village 1871, Sect. 2 Page 1. [S20] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Telegraph (title varies: Berlin Telegraph, Berlin Daily Telegraph) (1853-1922), 17 Aug 1860. Snyder - Moyer: At Berlin, on Tuesday the 7th inst., Mr. John B. Snyder, of Waterloo Village, to Susannah, daughter of Wm. Moyer, Esq., of Berlin. [S20] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Telegraph (title varies: Berlin Telegraph, Berlin Daily Telegraph) (1853-1922), 17 Aug 1860. "Snyder - Moyer: At Berlin, on Tuesday the 7th inst., Mr. John B. Snyder, of Waterloo Village, to Susannah, daughter of Wm. Moyer, Esq. of Berlin." [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. John B. Snider, 20, res. Waterloo, b. Waterloo, son of Jacob and Anna (Bricker), married 7 Aug 1860 Susanna Moyer, 18, res. Waterloo, b. Wilmot, daughter of William and Margaret (Erb)

  
  

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  Born - 25 Aug 1840 - St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Business - John B. Snider - office, school, church and lodge furniture - - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonist - 1851 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1860 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 7 Aug 1860 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Clerk - 1861 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1861 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Merchant - 1871 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1871 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Store Keeper - 1881 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Store Keeper - 1891 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1891 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Manufacturer - 1911 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1911 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth