John Calvin Snyder

Brief Life History of John Calvin

When John Calvin Snyder was born on 5 August 1843, in New Haven, Huron, Ohio, United States, his father, Simon Snyder, was 36 and his mother, Susanna Jacobs, was 40. He married Mary Edna Bousselot on 11 May 1873, in Clinton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Grove Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Allens Grove Township, Scott, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 June 1922, in Dixon, Scott, Iowa, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Dixon, Scott, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Calvin Snyder
1843–1922
Mary Edna Bousselot
1852–1926
Marriage: 11 May 1873
Emma Josephine Snyder
1874–1969
Ephraim Hayes Snyder
1876–1957
Simon Snyder
1878–1964
Daniel LeRoy Snyder
1880–1958
Sadie Lillian Snyder
1882–1939
Nellie Laura Snyder
1884–1983
Eugenia Ivy "Jennie" Snyder
1887–1976

Sources (62)

  • John Snyder, "United States Census, 1920"
  • John Snyder, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • John Snyder, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1852

Historical Boundaries: 1852: Scott, Iowa, United States

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider ‘tailor’ and of its Slavic(ized) variants, such as Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Šnajder, Czech Šnajdr (see also Snider 1).

Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Snijder, an occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch sniden ‘to cut’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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