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Amos
Snider One
of the gallant boys in blue thus to return was Amos Snider, now a
well-established farmer of Richland Township, Jasper County. He was born in Linn
County, Iowa, three and one-half miles south of Cedar Rapids, about 1843, the
son of John and Margaret Snider, the father a native of Sangamon County,
Illinois, and the mother of Kentucky. Each came to Iowa in pioneer days, single,
and located in Linn County. The
father devoted his life to farming and became the owner of some property there,
but sold out and moved to Hardin County when it was still new and about 1853 or
1854 he moved to Jasper County, where he remained until 1865, when he moved to
Kansas, in which state his death occurred in 1883. His wife died in Jasper
County. They were the parents of seven children, three supposed to be living at
this writing. The
elder Snider was a Republican, but took little active interest in public
affairs, being of a retiring disposition. He,
too, was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in Company K, Twenty-eighth
Iowa Volunteer Infantry, for a period of nearly three years, during which time
he took part in about fifteen battles and skirmishes, in one of which he was
wounded in the arm. Amos
Snider, being reared in a newly settled country where schools were few, had no
chance to obtain an education; then, too, it was necessary for him to assist
with the general work in developing the home farm.
He was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Jasper
County. He entered the army in the same company with his father and took part in
about the same engagements, serving about the same length of time.
He was in the siege of Vicksburg, the battles of Lookout Mountain, Port
Gibson and Champion's Hill. At the
last named battle he was wounded in the left side of the head by a bursting
shell, which badly stunned him, but he recovered in due course of time.
After the war he returned to Jasper County and began operating a saw-mill
in Lynn Grove Township, which he continued for eight or nine years, then went to
Kansas, where he remained a year. Returning
to Richland Township, this County, he bought a farm of twenty acres, which he
gradually added to until he now has a very productive and desirable place
consisting of one hundred and twenty acres in this Township. This land he
cleared, broke and improved and placed under a high state of cultivation.
He is also the owner of eighty acres of good land near Newton and twenty
acres northeast of his home. He has
carried on general farming and stock raising successfully, but is now living
practically retired from active life. Politically,
Mr. Snider is a Republican. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr.
Snider was married about 1864 to Millie Ann Messick, after he returned from the
army. She died about a year later, leaving twins, William Henry and Minnie; the
former died at the age of twenty years, and the latter married a Mr. Hamilton. About two years after the death of his first wife, Mr. Snider
was married to Dora Bailey, whose death occurred about 1894.
To this union one child was born, Nellie, who is still living.
Mr. Snider was again married, his last wife being Mrs. Jennie Jumper, who
was born in Illinois, a daughter of Jackson and Susan Jumper.
Her family came to Iowa when Mrs. Snider was four years old and here her
father died and the mother is still living. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 1184. |
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