Person:Johann Snider (1)

Not sure of relationship between Matthias Schneider and Jacob and Christian Schneider. They are most likely related, may all be brothers, or Matthias may be the father of Jacob and Christian. More research is necessary to determine the exact relationships.

This Jacob is being tentatively placed as a son of Christian Schneider, because he is listed with Christian on the ship records, but is not listed as a head of family, which possibly indicates Jacob is Christian's son. More research necessary.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stotzer/snader2.html

(Johan) Jacob Schnader b.3/25/1735 d.1829 m.Anna Maria Children: Christian (7/28/1757) Jacob (11/22/1758) Elizabeth (died young-1777) Catherine (1764) Baltzer (1765) John (?) Susanna (?) + female(?)

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Baltzer Schneder b.11/23/1765 d.1853 m. Barbara Kitzmiller Children: Benjamin, Elizabeth, John, Elizabeth, Catherine, Sarah, William, Jacob, James (1804) Mary, Amos (1807) Mary, Lydia.

Another source claims that Jacob Snider's wife was Margaretha ???

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/a/Dale-A-Beavens/GENE2-0001.html

1. JACOB SCHNADER /1 SCHNEDER was born in Switzerland near the boundary line of Baden & Wurtemburg, and died in came to America 11 Sep 1729 on the ship "Allen". He married UNKNOWN.

Notes for JACOB SCHNADER / SCHNEDER: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM: THE HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF BERKS COUNTY BY MORTON L. MONTGOMERY

JAMES F. SCHNADER, OF Cumru township, Berks county, was born July 18, 1869, in Cumru township, son of Franklin K. and Fietta (Saylor) Schnader.

The great-great-grandfather of JAMES F. SCHNADER was JOHN JACOB SCHNADER, who was one of the organizers of the Center Lutheran and Reformed Church of Lancaster county, the site of which is the burial ground of many of his descendants. When he settled four miles back of the Conestoga river, in the virgin forest, all of the surrounding country was a wilderness and here he at once commenced to clear land. At the time of his death, in 1829, when ninety-five years old, he was the owner of 1000 acres of excellent land. He married a second time when seventy-five years of age. Mr. Schnader was known as a remarkable man in many ways, but was always highly esteemed for his many sterling traits of character. His son, BALZER SCHNADER, born in 1765, at the old homestead, married BARBARA KITZMILLER. After marriage, he located in Franklin county, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits for a few years and then returned to his native township and became the owner of a fine farm of 270 acres. He erected the first stone house built in the neighborhood, the roof of which was of imported tiles and the glass in the windows was but four inches square. Balzer Schnader was the father of fourteen children, among whom were: Jacob, born Dec. 25, 180-, died Nov. 13 1861; Amos; William; John; Sally; Betsy; James; Lydia; and Mary.

JAMES SCHNADER, grandfather of James F., was born Nov 23, 1802, in Lancaster county, and died Oct. 5, 1872. For some years he lived in Cumberland county, and in 1842 came to Brecknock township, Berks county, where the remainder of his life was spent. He owned a farm of 100 acres of land, which was highly cultivated, and he was considered a substantial and representative citizen of his day and community. He is buried at Allegheny Church, as is his wife, both being members of that organization. JAMES SCHNADER married SUSANNA KESSLER, daughter of JOHANNES KESSLER, born Feb. 10, 1805, who died Nov. 22, 1881, and they had these children: Maria, who married John Sweitzer; Richard, who married Angelina Deeds; Franklin, who married Fietta Saylor; John, who married Amanda Jones; James, who married Anna M. C. Grater; and Susanna, who married Samuel Hartz.

FRANKLIN K. SCHNADER, father of James F., was a gun-barrel manufacturer and farmer along the Wyomissing in Cumru township, where he became a substantial and highly esteemed citizen. Born in Brecknock township Jan 1, 1831, early in life he came to Cumru township, and this section of the country was his home until his death, May 14, 1906. He and his family were members of Gouglersville Church, of which he was deacon and elder. Mr. Schnader married FIETTA SAYLOR, born in October, 1832, daughter of JOHN SAYLOR of Alsace township. Five children were born to this union as follows: Nathaniel S., born March 30, 1854, a gun-barrel manufacturer of Cumru township, also conducting a cider mill which manufacturers as much as 90,000 gallons annually, married in 1875, Victoria Zeamer, daughter of Henry Zeamer, and to them were born eight children, as follows: Mary, Charles, Frank, Katie, Carrie, William, Gertie and Stephen; HENRY, who married MARY WERTZ, died in 1888, aged thirty-two years, seven months, eighteen days; Mary E., who married John A. Von Neida, of Bowmansville, Pa.; Adallia, who married Samuel K. Ramp of Brecknock township; and James F., of Cumru township.

JAMES F. SCHNADER received his education in the public schools of his native township, leaving them at the age of sixteen years to learn the milling trade with John A. Von Neida, of Bowmansville, Pa., with whom he continued for upwards of a year. He then learned the painting trade with Frank Folfinger, of Mohnton, with whom he continued for three years, working also for Mosser & Pauling, painting contractors, for four years. Mr. Schnader then worked for himself for two years and for four years at the trade in Reading, then engaging in the milling business, at the mill erected by his father, known as the Wyomissing Grist, which was the first mill obtaining its power from the Wymomissing creek. After the death of his father in 1906, Mr. Schnader came into possesion of the Schnader homestead in Cumru township, a tract of forty-seven acres, on which property is the famous old gun-barrel factory, where gun-barrels were manufactured during the Revolutionary war, one of the oldest business places in the county, and here also is situated the cider-press, where thousands of barrels of apples are ground into cider annually. The present home was built by his father in 1860. Mr. Schnader also owns thirty-seven acres of heavily timbered land and his own home on the road leading from Mohnton to Gouglerville.

In politics Mr. Schnader is a staunch Democrat, and in the spring of 1906 was elected by a handsome majority to the office of school director of Cumru township, which has thirty schools. He takes a great interest in educational matters and is an efficient man for the office. He and his family are members of Gouglersville Union Church, belonging to the Reformed denomination.

In the year, 1894 Mr. Schnader was married to Annie M. Unger, born Dec. 3, 1874, daughter of George and Annie (Bower) Unger, natives of Wittenberg, Germany, and to them were born children as follows: Sadie W., born March 21, 1895; Clara M., born July 26, 1897; James H., born Aug. 25, 1899; Annie F., born Oct. 6, 1901; Wayne A., born Dec. 19, 1904; and Harland A., born Jan. 17, 1907.