Mattison Wilbur Snyder

Brief Life History of Mattison Wilbur

When Mattison Wilbur Snyder was born on 5 April 1878, in Campbell Hill, Jackson, Illinois, United States, his father, Philip Snider, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Bradley, was 36. He married Lucinda Adeline "Addie" Butler on 14 October 1897. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States for about 5 years and St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1950. He died on 5 April 1957, in East Saint Louis, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Tower Grove Cemetery, Murphysboro, Jackson, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Mattison Wilbur Snyder
1878–1957
Lucinda Adeline "Addie" Butler
1879–1936
Marriage: 14 October 1897
Joseph Burke Snyder
1900–1966
Carlie Snyder
Wilbur Snyder
Zula Nevaline Snyder
1907–1992
Harold Snyder
1910–1910
Ethel "Elizabeth" Snyder
1910–1986

Sources (23)

  • Madison Snider, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Synder, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
  • Mattison Snyder, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

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1885 · The First Skyscraper

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1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

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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