Biography

10/27/1832 - 11/04/1905

SNYDER, Elim Given, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, October 27, 1832 in Paradise, Lancaster County, Pa.; farmer; machinist; salesman, manger and partner, H. & A. Stoner, agricultural implements; salesman, Steinman & Co.’s, hardware store; elected, city council, Lancaster (2 years); elected, school board, Lancaster (6 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1880 and 1882; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1884); grocer; died, November 4, 1905 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.