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Jacob & Rebecca Niver Snyder 1910 Reunion Photo

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aor136added this on 13 Dec 2010 ksdirkoriginally submitted this to Snyder Family Tree - NE Pennsylvania on 2 Jul 2008 17 Aug 1910 , Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA Nay Aug Park

- 171 descendants attended the reunion
Jacob & Rebecca Niver Snyder 1910 Reunion Photo
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1910 Snyder Reunion
Posted 22 May 2007 by ksdirk
Snyder Reunion

The Scranton Tribune-Republican Wednesday, August 17, 1910
Descendants of Jacob and Rebecca Snyder held their family reunion yesterday in Nay Aug Park. Dinner was served at 2 o'clock and, according to the score kept by A. C. Snyder, and compared with the check list by another descendant, 171 members surrounded the tables.

During the afternoon, when cars brought additionals, the park became fairly filed with Snyder folk. It was supposed to be 'Ladies Day' at the swimming pool known as Lake Lincoln. The lake was filled with bathers. "Are you the only guard here to attend to all those children?" the lifeguard was asked. "Oh, no, those children are all Snyders", said the guard.

There were groups of them around the Everhart museum. There were groups promenading the drives. More clusters decorated the lawns. The picnic ground, where dinner was served, held another crowd. In sixes and sevens, they sat around the benches and swapped Snyder tales. More of them lined up at the zoo and fed peanuts to the bears. Younger Snyders climbed aboard the old gravity coach and 'monkeyed' with the hand brakes, just as A. C. Snyder, chief of gravity men, used to do forty years ago. Grandma Snyder, of one wing of the family, told a story of when they used to run 'rats' down the Lackawanna River from Olyphant.

"Rafts, you mean," A. C. Snyder corrected her. "They were rafts, not rats. I often heard my father tell about the rafts on the Lackawanna" continued A. C. S. "Oh, I though it was rats."

It was the first time the Snyder family broke away from Lake Chapman, the stomping ground of every annual gathering of the family heretofore. "We used to hold the reunion up at the lake, and say, maybe those farmers could not fix up a swell bill of fare," A. C. Snyder went on reminiscently, "but they never got up a better meal than this 'un." and he grabbed up a piece of cake to prove the assertion.

The family are descendants of Jacob and Rebecca Snyder, who immigrated from Duchess county, N. Y., to Olyphant in 1816, when the valley was a wilderness. That's where Grandma Snyder got the information about 'rats' running down the river. The attendance this year was larger than last. Next year it is expected that the gathering will be still larger, the forecast being based on the same theory that a family such as the Snyders, like the city of Scranton increased its census annually.

Officers for the next year were elected after the roll call in the morning. They are: president, S. L. N. Snyder, of Scott; secretary, James McLaughlin, of Scott; treasurer, A. C. Snyder, Dunmore. The committee elected to arrange for the 1911 reunion comprise: Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Snyder, of West Scranton; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Snyder, of Dunmore; Mr and Mrs. Abe R. Snyder, of Dunmore; Dr. and Mrs. Marion Snyder, of Dunmore; Byron Snyder and Belle C. Williams, of West Scranton. The reunion is held annually on the third Tuesday of August.

[No list of attendees was published. -ed.]

SNYDER, A. C.; Dunmore
SNYDER, S. L. N.; Scott
McLAUGHLIN, James; Scott
SNYDER, S. H., Mr and Mrs.; West Scranton
SNYDER, Samuel, Mr and Mrs.; Dunmore

SNYDER, Abe R., Mr and Mrs.; Dunmore
SNYDER, Marion, Dr. and Mrs.; Dunmore
SNYDER, Byron; West Scranton
WILLIAMS, Belle C.; West Scranton

Rebecca Snyder
Jacob & Rebecca Niver Snyder 1910 Reunion Photo

Jacob Byron Snyder Bio
Posted 08 Jan 2009 by ksdirk
From: A HISTORY OF SCRANTON AND ITS PEOPLE, BY COL. FREDERICK L. HITCHCOCK, Attorney at Law; late Colonel U. S. V., War 1861-1865, pub 1914

pg 628

JACOB BYRON SNYDER
Jacob Byron Snyder, who was active in legal circles and public life in general in Scranton, Pennsylvania,

for many years, was born in Greenfield township, Luzerne (now Lackawanna) county, July 7, I824, and was a son of
Jacob and Rebecca (Niver) Snyder, and a grandson of Jacob Niver. The ancestors on both sides were of Dutch descent,

and Mr. Snyder and Mr. Niver participated actively in the war of the Revolution. The public schools furnished

a sound and practical preparation for his legal studies, which Mr. Snyder took up with F. M. Crane and Earl Wheeler at

Honesdale, and with W.G. Ward at Scranton. For some years Mr. Snyder was a resident of Wayne county, Pennsylvania,

and while there served as justice of the peace for 'a period of ten years, and as coroner for a term of three years.

After taking up his residence in Scranton, he was appointed as court crier of Lackawanna county, and served many years.

Mr. Snyder married, June 20, 1850, Elizabeth, a daughter of John Decker, and of their children: Byron Jacob, married
Matilda, daughter of Lewis Cramer; Samuel Henry; Fred Gunster.

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1910 Snyder Reunion
16 Aug 1910
Nay Aug Park, Scranton, PA
1910 Snyder Family Reunion

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