THE FAMILY OF JACOB SNIDER.
In the army estimates an item of Li 700 is entered to be paid to the representatives of Jacob Snider, whose invention for the conversion of muzzle-loaders has been adopted to the extent of 500,000 arms. In Jane, 1866, poor Snider, worried by creditors, besought a grant of L 2700 for fC services " and drawings. Before any conclusion was arrived at, the mortgagees of Snider's patent compromised his claim with Government for LIOOO. Snider was at that time upon his deathbed, unable to remonstrate against a wrong. Not one shilling cf that thousand pounds ever reached him or his children. At last, four years after his death, considering the very distressing circumstances in which the members of his family are placed, the Government have granted LI7OO to bis widow and children, to be secured for their benefit. It is very little after all. The whole snm of L 2700, including the LIOOO swallowed up by the mortgages, gives nearly one penny farthing for each rifle convened on the Sdder principle. It would have been more profitable to his heirs if M. Snider had devoted his science aud his life to the improvement of boobjacks.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 735, 4 October 1870, Page 4
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199THE FAMILY OF JACOB SNIDER. Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 735, 4 October 1870, Page 4
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