Samuel Snider

Samuel Prather Snider (October 9, 1845 – September 24, 1928) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio; attended the public schools, the local high school at Mount Gilead, Ohio, and Oberlin College, Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted as a private soldier in the Sixty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; after the war engaged in commercial pursuits in New York; moved to Minnesota in 1876 and settled in Minneapolis; organized and built the Midland Railway in southern Minnesota; engaged in agricultural pursuits and the mining of iron ore; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives 1884 – 1888; elected as a Republican to the 51st United States Congress (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the 52nd congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892; retired and resided in Minneapolis until his death; interment in Lakewood Cemetery.