Jacob Snider

{{short description|American inventor (1811-1866)}}

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| birth_place = Montgomery, Georgia

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1866|10|25|1811|01|01}}

| death_place = 11, Oxford Road, Kilburn, London, England

| occupation = Inventor

| spouse = Angelina

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Jacob Snider (January 1, 1811 – October 25, 1866) was an American wine merchant and inventor.{{cite book|chapter=No. 231. The Snider Children.|title=In: Memorial Exhibitions of Portraits by Thomas Sully|date=1922 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xw4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA177|pages=177}} He co-invented and patented{{cite book|chapter=British Patent A.D. 1862, 21st June. No 1828. Breech-loading Fire-arms.|title=In: English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1862 (Nos 1786 - 1851)| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drzP2cbkjj8C&pg=PT136}} a method of converting existing muzzle-loading rifles into breech-loading rifles, notably the Snider-Enfield.

Originally from Montgomery, Georgia, Snider later moved to Philadelphia, but died in poverty in Kilburn, London, England while attempting to recover promised compensation from the British government.[http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/snider.pdf]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book|chapter=Mr. Snider's Case|title=In: The Military Forces of the Crown: Their Administration and Government, 1869|date=1869 |pages=532–536|volume=II|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/militaryforcesc00clodgoog/page/n568/mode/2up}}

He was survived by his wife Angelina and several sons, and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.{{cite book|title=Paths of Glory|date=1997|publisher=Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery|page=92}}

Snider worked for the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind, and in 1833, he produced the first raised print book in the United States. His method, which involved carving the letters into a sheet of copper by hand, was soon abandoned.