Rev. Beniah C. Snyder, son of Conrad Snyder and his wife, nee Benner, was born Dec. 31, 1840, on the homestead, now a part of- the battlefield of Gettysburg. He entered Pennsylvania College, but enlisted on Aug. 22, 1862, as a cavalryman in the 15th Penna. Cavalry. In the campaign of 1862-63, in Kentucky and Tennessee, he was prostrated by typhoid fever and honorably discharged for disability, May 12, 1863. He reentered college and graduated in 1867, taking the Freshman prize and the Hassler Latin medal in his junior year. He had previously taught school and after his graduation was principal of the Catasauqua high school until 1872, when he entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He was ordained at Norristown, May 26, 1875, and was called to the pastorate of St. Peter's Lutheran church at West Pikeland. Chester County, where he remained until 1881, when failing health compelled him to resign. He returned to Allentown, where he died, May 10, 1883. He married, Oct. 7, 1875, Ida V., daughter of Charles L. Newhard, who resides at 29 North Eighth Street, Allentown. They had three children: Lewis Newhard Snyder, born Jam 10, 1877, of Oakland, Cal, is traveling passenger agent of the Chicago & Great Western Railroad. He married Emily Maude Littlefield, and has one child. Helen; Mary Gertrude Snyder, married Jesse It Edmonson of Wilmington, Del., and has two children: Jesse R. Jr,, and Virginia Benner Edmonson. Ruth Ann, married Dr. Walter Oswald, of Syracuse, N. Y., and has one child. Rita Rose Oswald.