University of Wyoming
John Wesley Snyder and his brother, Dudley Hiram Snyder, lived in Williamson County, Texas, and served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war, they renewed cattle ranching operations and participated in the long trail drives of the 1860s and 1870s. John Wesley and D. H. owned the Renderbrook Ranch in Renderbrook Springs, Texas and land totaling about 258,000 acres between there and Lubbock, Texas until the sold it to Isaac and W. L. Ellwood in the late 1800s. The Snyder brothers were credited with driving the first herd to Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1871. After relocating to Wyoming, Dudley Hiram Snyder founded the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. John Wesley Snyder went on to serve on the executive committee for a number of years.
John Wesley Snyder married Catherine Jane Coffee. Their son Charles T. Snyder (1868-1928) married Elsie May Seavey, and the couple moved to Nebraska and later to Douglas, Wyoming, where Charles served as a deputy game warden. Charles's daughter Catherine Dora married W.O. Nuttall and lived in Lost Springs, Wyoming.
Collection contains photographs of members of the Snyder family; a pamphlet celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Southwestern University; biographical information on the Snyders, correspondence written by John Wesley Snyder while serving in the Confederate Army in Louisiana; and newspaper clippings about the Snyder Brothers association with Southwestern University, their ranching interests, military service, and connection Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
This material was received from Catherine Nuttall in May 1966.
Snyder, Dudley Hiram Family Papers, 1851-1923, CAH-MS SNYDER, Briscoe Center for American History Manuscripts, University of Texas.
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