B. 1791 D. 1865
Married: Elizabeth Cressman
The Schneider family came early to Waterloo in 1806 and its members contributed much to the development of the early settlement. Jacob C. Schneider (later changed to Snider) born in 1791 in Pennsylvania was a son of Christian Schneider who had settled in the area of early Doon. Jacob helped on his father’s farm but in 1829 had the opportunity to buy his Uncle Abraham Erb’s grist mill and sawmill in Waterloo. He continued the business adding a small distillery in order to use surplus grain that came to the mill, now called Union Mills. About 1850, he sold Union Mills to his son Elias and moved out to a farm he had purchased in Woolwich Township on the south side of the Conestoga River. Here c1854 he built a dam upstream on the Conestoga and constructed a mill race to a small grist mill, sawmill and woollen mill on the road leading to the north. This enterprise attracted settlers and soon a small village grew up around these industries. When a name for the settlement was being considered, the residents wanted it named after Snider. So it became known as Jacobstettle? – St. Jacobs. Snider died in 1865 at the age of 74.
Sources:
1. Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History.
2. Marg Rowell et al. Welcome to Waterloo.
3. Virgil Emerson Martin, The Early History of Jakobstettel, St. Jacobs Printery, 1979.
4. Waterloo Historical Society, Vol 5, 1917.
5. Waterloo historical Society, 1979, Vol 67
6. The Town of Waterloo, J.P. Jaffray.
7. Early Settlers to Wat Co., A Genealogy.
Jacob C. Schneider (Snider) Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Jacob C. Schneider (Snider) from the Ellis Little Papers. This biography has been transcribed exactly as written. Ellis Little was a local historian, who was the principal of Elizabeth Ziegler Public School.On his retirement, he invested much of his time in researching and writing about Waterloo's history. The Ellis Little Papers consist of extensive notes, papers and historical works.
- Notes
- Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see the transcribed text. To see the original document, please visit the Ellis Little Local History Room at the Main Branch of the Waterloo Public Library
- Date Of Event
- 1791-1865
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Schneider, Jacob ; Snider, Jacob ; Cressman, Elizabeth ; Snider, Elizabeth ; Schneider, Elizabeth ; Schneider, Christian ; Erb, Abraham ; Snider, Elias
- Corporate Name(s)
- Union Mills
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.186
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers: Men and Women of Our Past
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Ellis Little Papers
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- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
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