Brief Life History of Egerton
When Egerton Snider was born on 9 January 1826, in York, York, Home District, Upper Canada, British North America, his father, John Snider Sr., was 26 and his mother, Mary Heron, was 21. He married Mary Jane McBride on 15 October 1850, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He registered for military service in 1851. He died on 7 January 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Edgerton Snyder, "United States Census, 1850"
- Egerton Snider, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Egerton Snider, "Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider ‘tailor’ and of its Slavicized (Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian) form Šnajder (Czech mostly Šnajdr). The Slovenian and Croatian surname is in most cases derived from the dialect loanword šnajder ‘tailor’. Compare Sneider 1 and Snyder 1.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Snieder or Snijder ‘tailor’ (see Snyder 2).
In some cases probably also an Americanized form of Slovenian Žnider: variant of Žnidar, from žnidar ‘tailor’, an archaic word of German origin (see Schneider , compare 1 above and Znidarsic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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BIOGRAPHY OF MARY JANE McBRIDE SNIDER
Mary Jane McBride was born on 15 February 1834 in Mount Holly, Warren,Ohio to William and Elizabeth Harris Ball Booram. She was the second of eight children, six girls and two boys. Her fath …
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