Biography

06/18/1832 - 05/18/1894

SNYDER, Jeremiah, a Representative from Northumberland County; born, June 18, 1832 in Penn Township, Snyder County, Pa.; corporal, Company G. 4th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); second lieutenant, Company F, 131st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862, Civil War); miller; teacher; attorney-at-law (1861-1894); elected, District Attorney, Northumberland County (1865-1873); elected, justice of the peace, Sunbury (1873-1876); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1876 and 1877; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1878); proprietor, Commercial Hotel, Mount Carmel (1884-1886, 1892-1894); proprietor, Fairmount Hotel, Sunbury (1886-1887); died, May 18, 1894 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.