Alfred M. Snyder

Alfred M. Snyder, son of William and Mary Snyder, was born in Greene county. Pa., in 1827. He came to Stark county with his parents, and, with the exception of the years from 1853 to 1857 spent in California, has been a permanent resident of the county since 1840. In 1859 he purchased 160 acres where he lived twenty five years; then moved to section seventeen, where he improved a farm of 150 acres, where he now resides. On March 10, 1858, he married Miss Mary E. Hayes, born here in 1840, a daughter of Harry Hayes, a settler of 1837. They are the parents of five children: Bradford H., Charles A., Herbert E., Harry A. and George A. In his time he has experienced all the vicissitudes of pioneer life in Central Illinois, and of the Argonauts of 1853-7. Mr. Snyder is a member of the Blue Lodge of Lafayette, and he and wife belong to the Universalist church there.