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FREDERICK C. SCHNEIDER, car inspector of the C., C., C. & I. R. R.; Union City, Ohio; born in Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 30, 1826; when 14 years of age, he commenced the carpenter’s trade, and followed the same until 1853, when he emigrated to America, landing in Quebec, thence to Buffalo and Cleveland, where he was employed in the car shops of the L. S. & M. S. R. R. for several months, then to Gallion for two years, manufacturing cars, and in 1855, he came to Union City, Ind., and has since been Car Inspector of the C., C., C. & I. R. R. for upward of a quarter of a century; he attends to the inspection of all of the cars of the above road with the assistance of eight men under his charge. He married Elizabeth Jacoby in October 1855; she was born in Prussia Jan. 10, 1837; they have two children by this union— Charles, born Dec. 6, 1856, now conductor on the Bee Line, and William, born April 21, 1859, now brakeman on the D. & U. passenger. Mr. Schneider was a son of Frederick H. Schneider, who was born in Mecklenburg, Germany; was a baker and grain dealer, died in 1869, in Hamburg; he married Anna Gotshe, born in Altona, near Hamburg; she died in 1848 in Hamburg; they had four sons and two daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch was the oldest son.