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Snyder, William Henry

lawyer, legislator, was born June 29, 1858, in Belleville, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, and attended Washington university of St. Louis, Mo. He is an able lawyer of Belleville, Ill.; has been city attorney; served with distinction as a member of the house of representatives of the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth Illinois general assemblies. He is now master in chancery of his county; secretary of the board of trustees of the Illinois Historical library; and is prominent in the public affairs of his city, county and state.

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