B. 1815 D.1890
Married: Hannah Bingeman
Elias Snider, son of Jacob C. Schneider (Snider), was born in 1815 and when his father bought Abraham Erb's grist mill in 1829, young Elias probably began helping around the place. As he grew older and after he married Hannah Bingeman in 1835, he took a more active part in running Union Mills. Elias and his father c1850 tore down Abraham Erb’s structure and erected a much larger operation. Elias purchased land south of Erb St. from his father in 1851 and in 1853 bought the Union Mills when his father decided to venture into Woolwich where Jacob C. built a grist mill on the Conestoga River/later St. Jacobs. Elias, among other things, was quite a business man because in 1854 he sold Union Mills and bought German Mills in south part of Berlin. Later he bought back Union Mills and in 1874 sold it to his son William. He also bought and sold real estate, purchasing the home (built 1849) and farm of Barnabas Devitt in 1851 when Devitt moved to Bridgeport. He also sold in 1855 310 acres along King St. south of Erb St. to John Hoffman and his son-in-law Isaac Weaver who subdivided their purchase into residential and building lots. This development so increased population that Waterloo was incorporated as a village in 1857. Elias, in 1874, was ordained as a minister in the Eby Church on Erb St. W.
Sources:
1. Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Early Setters and their Descendants in Waterloo Township, Eldon D. Weber, Editor, 1971.
2. Marg Rowell, et al, Welcome to Wateroo.
3.Waterloo Historical Society, 1979, Vol. 67.
4.Waterloo County Churches, Rosemary Willard Ambrose
5.Early Settlers to Water Co. A Genealogy
Elias Snider Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Elias 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
- 1815-1890
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Snider, Elias ; Bingeman, Hannah ; Snider, Hannah ; Snider, Jacob ; Erb, Abraham ; Devitt, Barnabas ; Weaver, Isaac ; Hoffman, John
- Corporate Name(s)
- Union Mills
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.199
- 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
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
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