Monroe Snyder, who passed away in the middle nineties, was honored as one of the original four townsite men of Selma, the others being George B. Otis, J. E. Whitson and E. H. Tucker. He was a native of Holmes County, Ohio, and in 1849, when he was nineteen years of age, he left his home and crossed the continent with ox-teams, arriving at Sutter's Fort for information. Then he went to Shasta where he engaged in gold mining and then came back and purchased 160 acres of ground in the edge of Woodland.
Soon after, he returned to Ohio, sailing around Cape Horn. In the Buckeye State he married Jane Elizabeth Lemon, a native, and took his wife on their honeymoon trip to New York, from which city they sailed, on an old tub of a boat, for Panama. They crossed the Isthmus and finally entered the Golden Gate, and making their way inland, they settled at Woodland. This was in 1861, when Mr. Snyder built the first brick building there. He served as marshal and deputy sheriff of Woodland, and became a clerk at the State Capitol at Sacramento. He proved up on a homestead southeast of what is now Selma and bought more and more land. An illustration of his public spirit is afforded in Mr. Snyder's efforts, crowned with success, to secure such railway facilities as would favor the growth of the settlement is a matter of history.
This worthy pioneer was sixty-five years and nine months old when he died and was buried in the old I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Selma. He was also a Mason, and had helped to start Masonic lodges at Woodland and Selma. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, and had the largest funeral ever seen in Selma up to that time, brother Masons coming from Sacramento and other parts of the State.
Soon after, he returned to Ohio, sailing around Cape Horn. In the Buckeye State he married Jane Elizabeth Lemon, a native, and took his wife on their honeymoon trip to New York, from which city they sailed, on an old tub of a boat, for Panama. They crossed the Isthmus and finally entered the Golden Gate, and making their way inland, they settled at Woodland. This was in 1861, when Mr. Snyder built the first brick building there. He served as marshal and deputy sheriff of Woodland, and became a clerk at the State Capitol at Sacramento. He proved up on a homestead southeast of what is now Selma and bought more and more land. An illustration of his public spirit is afforded in Mr. Snyder's efforts, crowned with success, to secure such railway facilities as would favor the growth of the settlement is a matter of history.
This worthy pioneer was sixty-five years and nine months old when he died and was buried in the old I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Selma. He was also a Mason, and had helped to start Masonic lodges at Woodland and Selma. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, and had the largest funeral ever seen in Selma up to that time, brother Masons coming from Sacramento and other parts of the State.
Monroe Snyder, who passed away in the middle nineties, was honored as one of the original four townsite men of Selma, the others being George B. Otis, J. E. Whitson and E. H. Tucker. He was a native of Holmes County, Ohio, and in 1849, when he was nineteen years of age, he left his home and crossed the continent with ox-teams, arriving at Sutter's Fort for information. Then he went to Shasta where he engaged in gold mining and then came back and purchased 160 acres of ground in the edge of Woodland.
Soon after, he returned to Ohio, sailing around Cape Horn. In the Buckeye State he married Jane Elizabeth Lemon, a native, and took his wife on their honeymoon trip to New York, from which city they sailed, on an old tub of a boat, for Panama. They crossed the Isthmus and finally entered the Golden Gate, and making their way inland, they settled at Woodland. This was in 1861, when Mr. Snyder built the first brick building there. He served as marshal and deputy sheriff of Woodland, and became a clerk at the State Capitol at Sacramento. He proved up on a homestead southeast of what is now Selma and bought more and more land. An illustration of his public spirit is afforded in Mr. Snyder's efforts, crowned with success, to secure such railway facilities as would favor the growth of the settlement is a matter of history.
This worthy pioneer was sixty-five years and nine months old when he died and was buried in the old I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Selma. He was also a Mason, and had helped to start Masonic lodges at Woodland and Selma. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, and had the largest funeral ever seen in Selma up to that time, brother Masons coming from Sacramento and other parts of the State.
Soon after, he returned to Ohio, sailing around Cape Horn. In the Buckeye State he married Jane Elizabeth Lemon, a native, and took his wife on their honeymoon trip to New York, from which city they sailed, on an old tub of a boat, for Panama. They crossed the Isthmus and finally entered the Golden Gate, and making their way inland, they settled at Woodland. This was in 1861, when Mr. Snyder built the first brick building there. He served as marshal and deputy sheriff of Woodland, and became a clerk at the State Capitol at Sacramento. He proved up on a homestead southeast of what is now Selma and bought more and more land. An illustration of his public spirit is afforded in Mr. Snyder's efforts, crowned with success, to secure such railway facilities as would favor the growth of the settlement is a matter of history.
This worthy pioneer was sixty-five years and nine months old when he died and was buried in the old I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Selma. He was also a Mason, and had helped to start Masonic lodges at Woodland and Selma. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, and had the largest funeral ever seen in Selma up to that time, brother Masons coming from Sacramento and other parts of the State.
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