Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — Only One In The Family. [ARTICLE]

Only One In The Family.

James Snyder was down from Laura yesterday and is feeling pretty good for a man nearing his seventieth birthday. Mr. Snyder relates that he is the only Snyder of bis family as tar back as the family history goes that had departed from the Democratic laitb, bat he is and has been daring a>l G Ills life a staunch Republican, and all of his sons and sons-in law, nine in number are pat ap politically just like he is, and hfe has 32 grand children, most of them males, and all of them coming np with Republican tutorship. There will be no use of any Democrats applying for office says Unde Jim, when the third generation of Snyders become voters. It is 47 years ago last March since Mr. Snyder left his boyhood home near Liberty, Union county, and he has never been back there since, but now he is planning a trip for this fall and he may be away all winter.