, 1891-03-24
AN UNEXPECTED DEATH
A. C. SNYDER Passed Peacefully
Away Yesterday.
He Had Been Sick Since Last Tues
day Night.
A Cold on His Lungs the Cause of
His Death.

Cheyenne never receive | a greater or
more general shock than it did last even
ing when it was announced that Albert
G. Snyder was dead. While it had been
Known that he was sick few. if any, be
lisved that his death was SO near at hand.
In fact the reports received from his bed
side during the early afternoon were such
as to greatly encourage his friends 20 hope
for his speedy recovery.
Last Tuesday evening at 9 O'Clock Mr..
Snyder went home iron his place of busi-
ness. 1t was remarked by all his friends
who met him that he was looking very
badly that day and none who saw HIM
were surprised to learn the next day that
he was sick abed. 1t was reported that
he was suffering with the grip. Mr..
Snyder has been a sufferer for many years
with asthma. In the last six months he
had two severe attacks, so severe in fact
hat he suffered fortunes while they lasted
and emerged from them thin and worn.
After his last attack it was particularly DO
t;ceable that he showed even less recuper
alive powers than he had formerly. He
entirely recovered his spirits. for indeed
his good spirits seldom left Kim even in
the midst of his greatest suffering. But an
unwonted lsssitude was apparent in his
manner. When his last attack came
upon him he was in no condition TO
resist its inroads and its effect was soon
apparent. Saturday night it seemed as
though he would certainly pass away.
His pulse disappeared entirely aud he was
rapidly sinking. His heart finally re-
sponded to a dose Of d~igita!ls' and soon
thereafter be began slowly to improve.
He rested fairly comfortable during Sun
day and Sunday evening until about 10
o'clock, although he was never free from
pain and was entirely unable to take
food. At G O'Clock yesterday morning
there was a decided change for the worse.
DIR. Barkwell was hastily summoned and
by 9 o'clock the patient was again resting
comparatively easy. In the afternoon he
had another attack and suffered more
than at any time during his illness. He
was perfectly conscious until a short time
before his death and his final passing
away was as peaceful and gentle as a
child going to sleep. HIS death occurred
at 545 o'clock.
About fourteen years age Mr.. Snyder
had a dangerous attack of pneumonia,
which tended to weaken his lungs and
undoubtedly lett an abcess there. His
last illness was in the nature of an at
tack of pneumonia. his lungs being infl-
trated. His powers of resistance were
not sufficiently great to throw off this con
stantly accumulating mass and the heart
was incapable OF performing the addi-
tional duties imposed upon it. The i'm
mediate cause OF his death was therefore
heart failure.
Albert G. Snyder was born in Hunting
ton, Pa, &c years and 5 months ago He
becime a telegraph operator in his native
town. AT the breaking out of the
war he Joined the army and vent to the
front as a private soldier. When it was
known that he was an operator, and a
very expert one, he was transferred to
that branch OF the service very much
against his will. Antietsm was the
only battle during the war in which he
fought in the ranks. Very few men had
more strange or varied experiences, how
ever, and the stories he used to relate
when he was in the mood for it wero
humorous and sometimes thrilling. After
the close of the war he settled IN New
Orleans and remained there about two
years. He barely escaped with his life
during one of the horrible sieges Of
yellow fever aud was obliged to return
north to recover his health.
lie was even ut that time a sufferer
from asthma and in the search for a high
and dry climate his attention was directed
to Cheyenne. He came to this city TWEEN
tyrone years ago last fall aud at once Sc
cured work iu the telegraph office. The
following fall he returned to Pennsylvania
where he married Miss McCrum. lie
was so afflicted with asthma during hls
brief stay i'll Pennsylvania that after his
return, twenty years ago last October. he
never again went cast Of the Missouri
river. lie was steadily employed IN the
Western Union office here for about four
teen years, during the latter hall of which
time he was manager of the office. He
then quit the business and established a
meat market which he conducted for
about a year. At the end of that time he
was appointed postmaster by President
Cleveland and gave an administration of
the office of which he had every season to
be proud. After four years thus spent
he became quite heavily interested IN real
estate in Ogden and was finally induced
to go into partnership there with f. A.
Reed. He remained in Ogden about six
months and then returned to his first
love, Cheyenne. He bought out the in
terest OF j. A. Johnston in the grocery
firm OF Il. s. Johnston & Bro, in which