When John Peter Snyder was born on 20 May 1900, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Edward Jacob Snyder, was 24 and his mother, Bessie Virginia Edwards, was 21. He married Jennie Brooks Staubs in 1927, in Jefferson, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Brunswick, Frederick, Maryland, United States in 1900 and Bolivar, Jefferson, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 1 December 1973, in Jefferson, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 73.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
After the Assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the Twenty-sixth President of the United States. During his first term he didn't have a Vice President but for his second term Charles W. Fairbanks filled the position.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
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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