Aaron W. Schneider ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Book: Genealogical & Biographical Annals of Northumberland County by J. L. Floyd, 1911. ^{1 2} Aaron W. Snyder, son of George, was born April 14, 1840, on his father's farm, and was reared there and with the exception of one year when he lived with his brother-in-law, Daniel Reed, has passed his life on this place. He attended the old subscription schools which afforded the only advantage obtainable in the locality in his youth, and was reared to agriculture, which he has always followed. But he has also become a good mechanic, being a first class carpenter and blacksmith. In the spring of 1868 he began farming for himself on the old place, which is in Upper Mahanoy Township, and he has prospered steadily, having a valuable farm, well managed and productive.
Soon after the Civil war Mr. Snyder married Lizzie Erdman, daughter of Abraham Erdman (who married a Trautman), who lived near Rough and Ready, Schuylkill County, and nine children have been born to this marriage: Cora, who is unmarried; George, of Upper Mahanoy, who married Jennie Trautman (They have had three children, Earle, Rema and Elwood, the last named being deceased); Bertha, who died in childhood; Walter I., a farmer of Upper Mahanoy, who married Sallie Miller and has three children, Bessie, Minnie and Charles; Carrie, who married George Hornberger; Emma, who died young; Della J.; Charles D.; and Mamie A.

Aaron married Lizzie Erdman, daughter of Abraham Erdman and Troutman.