Gustav Adolphus Schneebeli (May 23, 1853 – February 6, 1923), was a
U.S. Representative
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from the
state of
Pennsylvania.
Schneebeli was born in
Neusalz,
Prussian Silesia
The Province of Silesia (german: Provinz Schlesien; pl, Prowincja Śląska; szl, Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1740 and established as an official p ...
. He immigrated to the
United States with his parents, who settled in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended the Moravian Parochial School. They later moved to
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and entered upon a mercantile career. He founded the knit-goods industry of the Nazareth Waist Co. In 1888 he established a
lace manufacturing company, of which he became sole owner.
Schneebeli was elected as a Republican to the
59th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906. He continued in the lace manufacturing business until his death in Nazareth in 1923. Interment in Moravian Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
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1853 births
1923 deaths
Prussian emigrants to the United States
People from Nowa Sól
People from the Province of Silesia
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American politicians
Businesspeople from Pennsylvania
American manufacturing businesspeople