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Snider, Samuel Prather

soldier, agriculturist, manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1845, in Mt. Gilead, Ohio.

He enlisted as a private soldier in the sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry; served with his regiment in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; and was wounded at the battle of Stone River, and severely wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Chickamauga. He served in West Tennessee as captain in the thirteenth United States colored infantry.

He moved to Minnesota in 1876; organized and built the Midland railway; and is engaged in farming, mining, and manufacturing in Minneapolis. He served in the Minnesota legislature from 1884 to 1888; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.