B. 1842 D. 1921
Married: Nancy Weber, Helen Shoemaker
E.W.B. Snider was born in Waterloo in 1842, the son of grist mill owner Elias Snider, and a brother of Wm. Snider who owned the Waterloo Mill later on. He gained experience working in his father’s mill and when his uncle Jacob C. Snider Jr., proprietor of St. Jacobs flour mill, was accidentally killed in the Desjardine Canal disaster, young Snider helped carry on the business and eventually became the owner. He made many improvements and introduced new technology such as roller mills that speeded up the production of flour. In ____ he purchased Jacob Bricker’s foundry in Waterloo. He enlarged and modernized the premises and with Absolam Merner as partner incorporated the business as the Waterloo Mfg. Co. The company was famous for the production of steam engines, tractors and threshing machines.
Sources:
1. Waterloo County Hall of Fame
2. Historical Atlas of Waterloo and Wellington Counties
3. Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, October 20, 1921
4. The Twin City, Berlin and Waterloo
5. Virgil Emerson Martin, The Early History of Jakobstettel, St. Jacobs Printery, 1979
6. Marg Rowell et al, Welcome to Waterloo.
7. Daily Telegraph, Waterloo County Outlook Edition, “The Men of Waterloo Co. Today” August 1914.
8. Waterloo Chronicle, June 25, 1957.
9. Waterloo Historical Society, Vol 9, 1921. Vol. 10, 1922. Vol. 44, 1956.
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12. The Waterloo Manufacturing Company Limited, 1850-1910.
E.W.B. Snider Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of E.W.B. 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
- 1842-1921
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Snider, E.W.B. ; Weber, Nancy ; Shoemaker, Helen ; Snider, Nancy ; Snider, Helen ; Snider, Jacob ; Bricker, Jacob ; Merner, Abraham
- Corporate Name(s)
- Waterloo Manufacturing Company Limited
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.201
- 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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