George M. Snyder was born in Pennsylvania, in 1814, and was four years old when the family came
to Ohio. His parents were Joseph ‏[Jost A.]‏ and Mary ‏(Bachman)‏ Snyder, who left Pennsylvania with their
loaded wagons and ox-teams and made their slow way across the mountains and through the uncleared
forests until they reached Summit County. They settled in Green Township, erecting a primitive
log cabin, in which they lived during the remainder of their lives which, reached into old age.
They had numerous children, some of whom succumbed to the hardships and privations of pioneer
life, but twelve reached maturity, as follows: Peter; Joshua; George ‏[M.]‏; Elizabeth who married
‏(first)‏ Mr. Hoobler and ‏(second)‏ a Samuel Messer; Sophia who married ‏(first)‏ George Tritt and
‏(second)‏ a Mr. Babb; Jacob; Daniel; Paul; residing in Starke County, Indiana; Joel; Abraham,
residing in Green Township, Summit County; Jonathan, and Nathaniel. The children took after their
parents, being large of frame and of robust constitution.

George M. Snyder was reared on the pioneer farm and assisted in its clearing. His educational
chances were few, schoolhouses were far apart and in so large a family there was always work
ready for every hand. He learned the mason’s trade and worked at it during the season, helped to
farm and in the winter, assisted to work the old loom, weaving cloth. His marriage did not make
much difference in his employment, merely transferring them to another place, for those were days
when everything was hand-made and there was little leisure for any one. Occasionally he would
take his gun and go out for game, which was then very plentiful, and would shoot deer, turkeys
and bear, and on one occasion a wild hog. His son still preserves a dangerous-looking tooth,
which was one of its defensive weapons. After his children had grown up he settled down to
farming, purchasing 125 acres of the land on which the village of Snydertown now stands, and he
owned property also at Barberton. He was a man who was well known all through this section He
died at the age of seventy-eight years.

George M. Snyder was married ‏(first)‏ to Catherine Harter, who was a daughter of Jacob Harter, one
of the pioneers in the neighborhood of Barberton. Mrs. Snyder died and left three children:
Henry, and George and Catherine, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Snyder was married ‏(second)‏ to
Mary Ann Rex, who was a daughter of Jacob Rex. She died in 1871, aged forty-three years, the
mother of fourteen children. They were as follows: Eliza Jane who died in infancy; Jacob; Sadie,
who married Harry Deisem; Daniel W.; Mary, who married Dr. Anderson; Lewis ‏[Mathias]‏; Thomas J.; Lucy, who
died in infancy; William; Inez, who married L. Horner; Evelyna, who married H. Pontius; Emma who
married William Stott; and two younger children who died in infancy.

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