Lincoln Lewis Snyder

Lincoln Lewis Snyder was born in Holgate, Ohio, on Feb. 12, 1906. After graduating from Holgate High School in 1925, he traveled extensively working in the wheat harvest throughout the middle west and into Canada, as a carpenter in Florida, putting on fireworks displays at the Sesqui-centennial Exposition in 1926 at Philadelphia, Pa., and in the shipyards of the Pacific Northwest. Since 1928 he has been in Las Vegas, Nevada, engaging in construction, retail grocery and restaurant business, and land investments. His mother, Nettie M. Snyder, joined him in Las Vegas in 1932 and died there on June 8, 1962. Mr. Snyder is currently interested in ranches in Nevada and southern Utah. He was married to Ora Lee in Las Vegas on July 7, 1948. Ora Lee was born of American parents in Morelos, Sonora, Mexico on Dec. 24, 1905.