Yolo County Biographies


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ELI SNIDER
 
Eli Snider, proprietor of Putah Nursery and a fruit-raiser, Yolo County, is a 
native of Ohio, born in Springfield, Clark County, March 1, 1853.  He received 
his education in the public schools of his native place.  At the age of 
seventeen years he engaged as an apprentice in one of the excellent machine 
shops of Ohio, where he served three years, thoroughly learning the machinist�s 
trade.  In the fall of 1875 he came to Yolo County, California, where he worked 
for five years, most of the time either as engineer for steam thresher or steam 
pump.  In 1880 he engaged in farming, on rented land, giving a portion of the 
crop in payment for rent; he continued farming on rented land for four years.  
In 1885 he bought the farm on which he now resides.  He has ten acres of nursery 
stock, which consists of all kinds of fruit and ornamental trees and vines.  On 
his fruit farm he has seventy acres planted to apricots, prunes, peaches and 
pears, twenty acres of which are bearing.
 
He was married, November 17, 1880, to Miss Minnie Montgomery, a daughter of 
Alexander and Susan (Martin) Montgomery.  Her father was a native of Kentucky 
and her mother of Virginia; they crossed the plains to California in 1850.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Snider have one child, a son, Alexander, aged eight years.  Mr. Snider 
is a member of Yolo Lodge, No. 169, I.O.O.F., and Athens Lodge, No. 228, F. &  
A. M., both located in Davisville.  He is also a member of Pythias Lodge, No. 
43, Knights of Pythias, located in Woodland.  He has a fine two-story house on 
his farm, is energetic and thorough in all he undertakes, and therefore is 
deservedly prosperous.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler