Horace Sylvester Snyder (1912-2010) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he received his high school and undergraduate education. He attended the University of Louisville Medical School for a short time, but returned back to Utah to support his family at the height of the Great Depression. He married Chelta Moss in 1938, and their marriage lasted 62 years until her death. At a young age, Snyder acquired a camera and soon became an accomplished photographer, and used the skill to support his family as a portrait photographer with multiple studio locations. Much of his photography is marked by his passion for rodeos and the idea of the American cowboy. After World War II, in which he served, Snyder became an irrigation engineer and started his own company, Snyder Distributing Company. He died in 2010.
Horace S. Snyder's father, Horace Greeley Snyder (1873-1951) was born in Wanship, Utah. He was the twenty-ninth of thirty-five children of his father, George Gideon Snyder, and the ninth of eleven children born to his mother, Caroline Kilfoyle, the fourth polygamous wife of George Gideon. George had six wives and had migrated from Canada to Nauvoo, Illinois, before joining the Latter Day Saint pioneers in Utah. Horace was a mine inspector, prospector, and developed a large amount of land into mines and mining communities. He died in 1951.
The Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers (1902-2010) contain personal and professional correspondence of Horace Greeley and Horace Sylvester Snyder, family history materials, mining information and reports, mine claims and deeds, ledgers, diaries, and news clippings.
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Donated by Carleen Jimenez in 2017.
Donated by Carleen Jimenez and Greg Snyder in 2018.
Processed by Braxton Utley in 2017.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2020.
Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Contains a scrapbook relating to Horace S. Snyder's younger years.
Contains collected short autobiographical stories.
Contains certificates relevant to Horace Sylvester Snyder's life, such as Selective Service, religious certificates, and his high school diploma.
A biography of Horace Sylvester Snyder written by his daughter, Carleen Snyder Jimenez.
Contains materials relating to Snyder's education at the University of Utah and the University of Louisville Medical School.
Includes a personal account of the Black Hawk War.
Contains correspondence and reports on the American Mine in Hachita, Grant County, New Mexico.
Contains the General Report on Mine Examination Trip to Arizona and New Mexico between the dates of January and February 1941. The report includes details on more than a dozen mining properties centralized in eastern Arizona and New Mexico.
Includes the Report on the Castro Mining Group located in the Oquirrh Range, West Mining District, Salt Lake County, more familiarly known as Bingham, twenty-five miles southwest of Salt Lake City's 1913 city limits. It includes ten claims comprising 66.14 acres at the head of Bear Gulch and on the eastern slope of Castro Gulch. U.S. Survey Number 3744 and 5024.
Includes the Report on the Copper Acres Group, a collection of claims located thirty miles northwest from Battle Mountain and fifteen miles south of Golconda, Humboldt County, Nevada.
Includes the Articles of Incorporation of the Eureka Tonapah Consolidated Mining Company which owned mining claims in Eureka County, Nevada. Included is the Report on the Windfall Mine in Eureka, Nevada by the Windfall Mining and Milling Company, the predecessor of the aforementioned incorporated company.
Contains correspondence and information relating to the Kaibab Copper Mine near Jacobs Lake, Arizona, in Kaibab National Forest.
Contains correspondence and reports regarding the Piute Mines at the north end of the Kingston Mountains near Inyo County, California. The mining property is twenty miles east of Tecopa.
Contains correspondence and reports relating to the Tintic Mining properties and the Tintic Standard Mining Company. The relevant mining properties are in the North Tintic Mining District or nearly five miles north of the town of Eureka, Utah.
Contains claim information for mines located within Tooele County, Utah.