Representative from Hamilton county, was born at Brooklyn, Poweshiek county, sixty-six years ago, the youngest of eight children. His parents, Martin and Catherine Snyder, were Pennsylvania Dutch and came to Brooklyn in the early fifties. He attended public school at Brooklyn, and later Mt Morris, Illinois, College. In 1888 engaged in the general merchandise business at Eldora. In 1891 he went into the general merchandise business at Jewell, Hamilton county. Served as president and manager of the Jewell Telephone Company and Jewell gas plant, and as mayor and member of board of education. In 1909 he secured the agency for Ford cars in Hamilton and Hardin counties, which business he still continues at Webster City. Married Mabel Farrow of Eldora in 1891, and has two sons, Richard F. and Frank G., Jr., graduates of Ames and Iowa City, both of whom volunteered and served in World War. Representative Snyder also served in World War, going over in 1918. He was officer in charge of the "Croix Rouge American" base warehouse at Gievres, France, with the rank of major. Member Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Masonic order and Eastern Star, and a Rotarian. He is a farm owner and member of the farm bureau. Member of Congregational church. He was selected by Governor Herring to have charge of the Iowa exhibit at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago in 1933. Elected to legislature in 1930 and re-elected in 1932. A republican.
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