House  1885-88  (District 30)
                            
                            
                                Party when first elected:  Not Available
                            
                            
                                Counties Served: 
                   Hennepin
                            
                            BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
                            
                                
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            Date of Birth: 
                                            10/9/1845
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth Place: 
                                            Mount Gilead, Ohio
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth County: 
                                            Morrow
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth Country: 
                                            United States
                                        
                                        
                                            Date of Death: 
                                            9/24/1928
                                        
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            Gender: 
                                            Male
                                        
                                        
                                            Religion: 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            Reported Minority: None Reported
                                        
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                
                                
                                    Other Names: 
                                    S.P.
                                
                                
                                    
                                
                                | Alternate Spelling of Last Name: Sneider | 
                                
                                    City of Residence (when first elected): 
                                    Minneapolis
                                
                                
                                    Occupation (when first elected): 
                                    Farming/Real Estate
                                
                             
                            EDUCATION
                            
                                
                                    Ohio Public Schools; Elementary School; 
Mount Gilead High School, Ohio; Secondary; 
Oberlin College, Ohio; Attended College; 
                                
                             
                            OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE
                            
                                
                                
                                        
                                        
                                            Military: 
                                            Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 65th Regiment (United States Civil War, Private); 
                         
                         186? to 186?
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            U.S. Representative: 
                                            4th Congressional District, Minnesota; 
                         
                         03/04/1889 to 03/03/1891
                                            [Elected]
                                        
                                    
                                    
                             
                         
                        
                        
                            FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
                            
                                
	
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                                    Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature: 
                                    
                                    
                                
                             
                            GENERAL NOTES
                            
                                
                                    Toensing, the Minnesota Journal of the House, 1885 and 1887, and the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress list his last name as Snider.  The Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1885 lists both Snider and Sneider.
He moved to New York after the United States Civil War.  He came to Minnesota in 1871, 1874, or 1876.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the United States House of Representatives in 1890.
He died in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was buried there in Lakewood Cemetery.