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personal appearance, dignified, courteous, and able in debate. He is an untiring legislator, and makes friends by his respectful consideration and business-like zeal. He is chairman of the committee on cities and towns, and a member of the committees on public lands and buildings, and fees and salaries.
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Sarah Pattershall, at Cambridge, Illinois, and six children have followed the union. The district represented by Mr. Snyder is what is called in legislative parlance the "float," indicating that part of the same territory represented by such a district may be included in another representative district. Representative Snyder is held in high esteem by his neighbors and fellow citizens of his district generally without regard to party. He was elected on the fusion ticket and serves on the following house committees: Mines and minerals, penitentiary, and fish culture and game. HON. J. M. SNYDER.
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banks and money monopoly. When twenty-two years of age he located in Illinois and the next year was. married to Harriet Frazier, of Viola. The happy union still continues. The vigorous and healthy-minded young man continued to preach and vote the anti-slavery ticket, supporting the free-soilers in 1848 and John P. Hale in 1852. In 1856 he cast his ballot for John C. Fremont, supported and voted for Lincoln in 1860, continuing to be a republican until Benjamin Harrison was elected, when he became a populist. He served in the war as captain of a company in the Eighty-third Illinois infantry. Mr. Snyder is a minister of the gospel, and was chaplain of the senate four years ago. He is a member of the committees on judiciary, telegraph, telephone and electric lights, apportionment, fees and salaries. HON. E. SODERMAN.
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