Background
Snyder, Harry was born on January 26, 1867 in Cherry Valley, New York, United States. Son of David W. and Mary A. Snyder.
instructor president agricultural scientist
Snyder, Harry was born on January 26, 1867 in Cherry Valley, New York, United States. Son of David W. and Mary A. Snyder.
Bachelor of Science, Cornell, 1889 (special work in chemistry).
He earned a Bachelor of Surgery from Cornell University in 1889, where he was subsequently instructor of chemistry at Cornell (1889–1891). Snyder joined the Agricultural Experiment Stationat at the University of Minnesota in 1891 as a chemist, and in 1892 became professor of agricultural chemistry in 1892 and, after 1907, professor of agricultural chemistry and soils in 1907. He left his professorship for industry in 1909 to become the chief chemist for the Russell-Miller Milling Company in Minneapolis.
Snyder Hall, constructed in 1938 as the agricultural biochemistry building at the university, was named after him on the University of Minnesota Saint Paul Campus.
lieutenant is now the headquarters for the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences. He was President of the Sigma Xi Chapter there from 1907-1908.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married Adelaide C. Craig, 1890.