Simon Snyder, Pennsylvania Governor 1808-1817
Simon Snyder, who served from 1808 to 1817, was the first of many Pennsylvania Governors to have Pennsylvania German roots. George Leader, Governor from 1955 to 1959, the only York County-born governor, was another.
Even though Simon Snyder wasn't born in York County, biographies of Governor Snyder agree that he was educated, both as a tradesman and academically, during the eight years he lived in York, to which he moved about 1776.
The information below is from an unidentified biography in Simon Snyder's manuscript file at York County Heritage Trust, as is the engraved image above, but the story in confirmed in many other sources.
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