YUBA COUNTY Biographies
SIMON P. SNYGG
A public-spirited citizen of Yuba County is found in Simon P. Snygg, who was born in Burke County, Nebr., on May 15, 1887, a son of John P. and Augusta (Peterson) Snygg, natives of Sweden. John P. Snygg emigrated to the United States when he was a young lad, stopping in Illinois, then going to Iowa, and later to Burke County, Nebr., and in 1901 he came to California and settled with his family in Turlock. He is the owner of 140 acres of land devoted to orchard and alfalfa, and has resided in Turlock for many years. Mrs. Snygg passed away in 1915, greatly mourned by her family. They were the parents of seven children: Ruphine, the wife of Isaac Erickson of Wheatland, whose sketch is found elsewhere in this history; Simon P., the subject of this sketch; Dora, Mrs. Paul Erickson; Frances, Mrs. A. A. Richards of Modesto; Edwin, farming at Turlock; Paul, at Arboga; and Lenne, also farming at Turlock.
Simon P. Snygg attended the public school of Nebraska, and remained with his father until he was twenty-three years old and then engaged in farming for himself. On June 26, 1918, at Merced, Cal., he entered the U.S. Army as a private, and was sent to Camp Kearney and placed in the 40th Division; later he was assigned to the 120th Machine Gun Company of the 32nd Division and sent overseas and for the last eleven days of the World War he served in the front lines in the second Meuse-Argonne offensive. He was also with the Army of Occupation, twenty miles East of Coblenz. He returned to the United States and was discharged on June 13, 1919, at the Presidio, in San Francisco. He came to Arboga, Yuba County, and soon after was elected constable of West Bear River township. He operates the school bus and has been janitor of the New England school for some time. A man of pleasing personality, Mr. Snygg has ever been ready to assist those less fortunate than himself, and all movements that have for their aim the upbuilding of the community in which he lives and thrives receive his hearty support.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
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