When Galen Walter Snyder was born on 26 July 1906, in New Enterprise, South Woodbury Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Elmer G Snyder, was 23 and his mother, Carrie May Brumbaugh, was 23. He married Laura Verna Golden on 2 June 1932. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Woodbury Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 11 January 2003, in Roaring Spring, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Martinsburg, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States.