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Architect/Firm: Jacob Snyder
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Name: Jacob Snyder

Birth/Established: March 12, 1823 Death/Dissolved: December 29, 1890

Biography:

Jacob Snyder, an Akron-based architect, was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. His father was a contractor and builder. He learned the trade while living at home. He went to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he took a general college course and theoretical course. After finishing coursework he went into business in Columbia County. He moved to Akron in 1853 where he began business as a grocer. Two years later he was engaged in the contracting business and building and architecture. In 1863 he formed a partnership in the lumber manufacturing business. He served on the Board of Education, as a trustee of Portage Township. Politically he was raised a Democrat, but switched political alliances during the Civil War becoming a Republican. He was also in favor of Prohibition. He was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Akron, where he was superintendent of Sunday School for several years. He made a specialty of church designs, and was the originator of the Akron Plan for churches, that included the church and radiating classrooms. He designed some buildings in Cleveland and outlying suburbs.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
First M.E. Church	1858	44 East Sandusky and Walnut Mechanicsburg	Unknown
First M.E. Church	1867-72	170 South Broadway Akron	Demolished
Hower House	1871	60 Fir Hill Akron	Standing
Ohio Agricultural College	1871	230 North Oval Drive Columbus	Demolished
Newburgh Methodist Church	1873	9105 Miles Park Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Methodist Episcopal Churc...	1873-5	71 North Park Place Painesville	Standing
Huling Hall - Allegheny C...	1879	Meadville	Standing
Baptist Church	1881	Bradford	Unknown
Hennepin Avenue Methodist...	1881	Minneapolis	Demolished
Presbyterian Church	1881	Lagrange	Unknown
St. Paul's Episcopal Chu...	1885	354 E. Market St Akron	Standing
Chatauqua Publishing Hous...	1886	Park Avenue and Center Street Meadville	Demolished
First M.E. Church	1886	North Second Street and Poplar Memphis	Demolished
Crouse Gymnasium - Buchte...	1887	Akron	Demolished
Presbyterian Church	1888	301 North Main Street Abbeville	Standing
Baptist Church	1892	Bedford	Standing
Aultman, Miller & Company	nd	Akron	Demolished
Baptist Church	nd	1 East 2nd Street Elyria	Unknown
First Baptist Church	nd	131 South Broadway Akron	Unknown
First Congregational Chur...	nd	120 South High Street Akron	Unknown
First M.E. Church	nd	Oil City	Demolished
First M.E. Church	nd	Augusta	Unknown
German Reformed Church	nd	224 South Broadway Akron	Unknown
Grace Reformed Church	nd	106 South Broadway Akron	Unknown
Insane Asylum	nd	Newburg	Demolished
J. F. Sieberling Office	nd	Akron	Unknown
M.E. Church	nd	Camden	Unknown
Presbyterian Church	nd	Warsaw	Unknown
Trinity Lutheran Church	nd	48 North Broadway Akron	Unknown
United Brethern Church	nd	New Brighton	Unknown
Woodland Avenue Presbyter...	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
Perkins High School	unk	West Exchange and Locust Akron	Demolished

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?Gone to Eternal Rest ? Death Last Nigh of Jacob Snyder? Akron Daily Beacon 12.30.1890

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