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==Background==

==Background==

Snyder was the second of four children born to [[Pennsylvania]] native Charles W. Snyder and the former [[Kentucky|Kentuckian]] Susan Hale (1816–1892), later Susan Wulfjen,<ref name=fgrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8378666|title=John Wesley Snyder|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=November 16, 2019}}</ref> in Yazoo County in west central [[Mississippi]]. Charles Snyder died in 1840, and the three-year-old moved with his mother to [[Missouri]]. In 1856, Snyder and a brother, '''Dudley Hiram Snyder''' (1833–1921), came to Texas as partners in an [[apple]] orchard and [[horse]]-trading business situated between Georgetown and Round Rock in Travis and Williamson counties.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=​

Snyder was the second of four children born to [[Pennsylvania]] native Charles W. Snyder and the former [[Kentucky|Kentuckian]] Susan Hale (1816–1892), later Susan Wulfjen,<ref name=fgrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8378666|title=John Wesley Snyder|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=November 16, 2019}}</ref> in Yazoo County in west central [[Mississippi]]. Charles Snyder died in 1840, and the three-year-old moved with his mother to [[Missouri]].<ref name=handbook/>

 

In 1856, Snyder and a brother, '''Dudley Hiram Snyder''' (1833–1921), came to Texas as partners in an [[apple]] orchard and [[horse]]-trading business situated between Georgetown and Round Rock in Travis and Williamson counties.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=​

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsn13|author=H. Allan Anderson of [[Lubbock]], Texas|title=Snyder, John Wesley|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=November 16, 2019}}</ref>​

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsn13|author=H. Allan Anderson of [[Lubbock]], Texas|title=Snyder, John Wesley|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=November 16, 2019}}</ref>​

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