Adam Clarke Snyder (March 26, 1834 – July 24, 1896) was a justice of the
West Virginia Supreme Court.
Biography
Snyder was educated at Washington College (now
Washington and Lee University) in
Lexington, Virginia. He received a degree in law at the
Lexington Law School. He married
Henrietta Cary.
When the
Civil War broke, he served with the 27th Virginia Volunteer Infantry (known as the 'Greenbrier Rifles') in the
Confederate States Army, returning to his profession at law when the war was ended.
Snyder was a co-founder of the Bank of Lewisburg with
Alexander F. Mathews
Alexander Ferdinand Mathews (November 13, 1838 – December 17, 1906) was an American lawyer, banker, and university board director in the U.S. State of West Virginia. He served as a Confederate officer and aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Hen ...
and
Homer A. Holt
Homer Adams Holt (March 1, 1898January 16, 1975) was a West Virginia lawyer and politician who served as that state's 20th governor from 1937 to 1941. Born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, he attended the Greenbrier Military School there and the ...
. The bank opened in 1781 and was the first official bank in the county.
[Greenbrier Historical Society (1938) Greenbrier Historical Society Historical Booklet, Greenbrier Co., 1938. http://www.lewisburg.org/history/adamsnyderbio.htm Retrieved 2012-10-29]
In 1882 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of West Virginia to complete the term of Justice
James F. Patton, who died in office. In 1884, Snydor was elected for the next full term, serving until 1890. He died in Lewisburg in 1896.
References
Greenbrier County WV Heritage 1997 p. 23
* James C. Mohr
Licensed to Practice: The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical ProfessionGreenbrier County WV Heritage 1997
p. 9
Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 51
p. 352
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People from Highland County, Virginia
1834 births
1896 deaths
West Virginia Democrats
Washington and Lee University alumni
Justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
People of Virginia in the American Civil War
People from Lewisburg, West Virginia
19th-century American judges