Thomas Woodward Snyder was born on 30 October 1916, in Friday Harbor, San Juan, Washington, United States. He died on 28 December 2005, in Washougal, Clark, Washington, United States, at the age of 89.
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’.
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