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Title: Isador B. Snyder fonds
Physical description: 35 cm of textual material
Biographical sketch: Isador Betzner Snyder (15 November 1859-18 April 1938) was the oldest child (of six) of Joseph C. Snyder (1837-1909) and Elizabeth Betzner Snyder (1839-1932). He was a farmer east of Berlin/Kitchener (where the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium is now located). On 19 November 1884 he married Hannah Bingeman (22 June 1860-13 April 1926); they had five children, including Earle Snyder.
Isador and Hannah were active members of the Christian Eby (First Mennonite) congregation in Berlin; in their last years they were associated with the Stirling Ave. Mennonite Church. Isador was musically gifted, and was an early song leader in the Sunday school movement.
The Isador Snyder diaries are revealing about life the Mennonite community in the last decades of the 19th century. They include descriptions of evening edification meetings, the Sunday school movement, and the John S. Coffman revival meetings. He has a notes taken at these revival meetings in 1891.
Custodial history: The material was preserved by Helen Reusser, granddaughter of Joseph C. Snyder. She donated it to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario in October 2008.
Scope and content: Diaries and account books. Also included are legal documents pertaining to several generations of the Snyder family, including his father, Joseph C. Snyder, grandfather, Jacob E. Schneider (2 September 1800-2 October 1884), and great grandfather Joseph Schneider (24 May 1772-27 October 1843), and some correspondence.
The fonds includes five series: 1) Legal documents; 2) Correspondence/Writing; 3) Diaries; 4) Account books; 5)Miscellaneous.
Notes:
Original archival description created October 2008 by Sam Steiner.
1880-1881, 1883 (travel diary of trip to Vineland), 1883-1884, 1885, 1886-1888 (included visitors in 1892), 1892-1894, 1894-1896, 1898-1901, 1902 (travel diary of trip to California), 1909
1879/80, 1885/86, 1887, 1888/89, 1890/91, 1892, 1893-1897, 1898/99, 1905/06, 1915
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Phone: 519-885-0220 x24238
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