Prof. Edward Snyder

 

SOURCE: "Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Illinois," Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1887
SURNAMES: MLYNARSKA, PATCHEN, SNYDER

Prof. EDWARD SNYDER, M. A., holding the Chair of Modern Languages of the Illinois University, is a native of Sokal, Austrian, Poland, born in 1835, and the son of Mathias and Paulina Anna MLYNARSKA. He was educated at the Universities of Lemberg and Vienna; entered the army in 1859 and participated in the campaign of 1859, in Italy, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant in the 74th Infantry. In 1862 he emigrated to the United States, enlisted in the 178th New York Infantry, serving three years, and receiving the commission of Captain. After the close of the war he taught in St. Louis and Carlinville, Ill. In 1868 he was elected Professor of Military Science and German in the University of Illinois, and commissioned Colonel of the I. S. N. G.; was appointed Professor of Modern Laanguages in 1874, and has held the position of Recording Secretary to the Board of Trustees since 1870.

Prof. Snyder married, in July, 1869, Miss Mary S. PATCHEN, of Burton, Ohio, daughter of D. PATCHEN, of Carlinville, Ill. Mrs. S. is a member of the Congregational Church, which the Professor also attends. Politically his tendencies are Republican.