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A. V. R. Syder
Submitted by: Lynn Mack
A. V. R. SNYDER, the efficient treasurer of Polk county, is
also
engaged in the fire insurance business at Dallas and is
managing the
financial affairs of the county with the same care displayed in
the
control of his individual interests. He has filled
other positions of
public trust and over the record of his public career there
falls no
shadow of wrong nor suspicion of evil. He was born
in Milford,
Illinois, April 16, 1852, and is a son of James P. and Sarah E.
(BRAYTON) SNYDER, the former a native of New York and the
latter of
Ohio. In an early day the father became a resident
of Illinois and in
1856 started across the plains to California, but was never
heard from
afterward and it is supposed that he met death in the Mountain
Meadow
massacre in Utah. The mother continued a resident of
Illinois until
her demise in 1909.
A.V.R. SNYDER was reared in Illinois, attending the public
schools of
Oregon, that state, and later becoming a student at the Mount
Morris
Seminary. After completing his studies he learned
the printer's trade
at Oregon, beginning his apprenticeship in 1867, and for
several years
continued to follow the trade in various places. On
the 24th of July,
1872, he arrived at McMinnville, Oregon, where, in association
with
his brother, he founded the Yamhill County Reporter, which they
conducted until 1885, and then sold the plant and went to
Astoria,
where they purchased the Gateway Herald, continuing its
publication
until 1889, again selling out and removing to Dallas, Polk
county,
where Mr. SNYDER of this review obtained employment in the
office of
the Observer, with which he was connected for a time,
subsequently
establishing the Valley Transcript. For four years
he conducted his
interests at Dallas, at the end of which time he moved the
plant to
McMinnville and issued the publication at that city until 1901,
when
he was appointed collector of customs at Wrangle, Alaska,
serving in
that position until 1902. He resigned to accept the
appointment of
the United States commissioner, occupying that office for eight
years,
or until 1910, when he returned to Dallas and engaged in the
fire
insurance business, in which he still continues. He
has closely
studied every detail of the business and is most successfully
managing
his interests, writing a large amount of insurance annually. In
1916
he was elected county treasurer of Polk county and his
excellent
record in that office led to his reelection without an opposing
candidate at the close of his term in 1919. He is
discharging his
duties with promptness and fidelity and is proving a faithful
custodian of the public funds.
In November, 1874, Mr. SNYDER was united in marriage to Miss
Laura B.
ROWELL and they have become the parents of seven children,
namely:
George C. L., a resident of Portland; Sarah E., the wife of W.
C. COOK
of McMinnville; Jennie A., who married T. J. WARREN, also a
resident
of McMinnville; Frank E., who is living in Seattle, Washington;
A.
Claire, residing in McMinnville, Oregon; Pauline, the wife of
H. C.
LOWE of Seattle; and William C., who makes his home in Tulare,
California.
In his political views Mr. SNYDER is a republican and has been
called
upon to fill various public offices of honor and trust. While
residing at McMinnville he served for two years as city
recorder and
for six years filled that position at Dallas. For
four consecutive
sessions he was assistant chief clerk of the state legislature,
his
work being performed most systematically and accurately. His
fraternal connections are with the Knights of Pythias and the
Dramatic
Order of the Knights of Khorassan, his membership being in Abd
Uhl
Atef Temple of Portland. He also belongs to
Friendship Lodge, N. 6,
I.O.O.F., to La Creole Encampment at Dallas, and is likewise a
member
of Elmira Lodge, No. 26, of the Rebekahs, and a member of
McMinnville,
Oregon, Lodge No. 1283, B. P.O.E. The family attend
the Episcopal
church and their lives are guided by its teachings. He
has displayed
rare qualities as a public official and is held in equally high
regard
in the various connections in which he is found, his labors at
all
time being attended by results that are far-reaching and
beneficial.
History of Oregon, Biographical, Vol. II, The Pioneer
Historical
Publishing Company, 1922, Pages 177-178
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