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Meredith Pinxton Snyder (1859–1937) was a California property owner and businessman who was mayor of Los Angeles on three separate occasions from 1901 through 1921 and was also on the California Industrial Accident Commission. ==Personal== Snyder was born on October 22, 1859,〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6245〕 in or near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the son of Kehlin D. Snyder and Elizabeth Hire (Heiher). He went to public schools and then to Bethany and Schylo Academy and Yadkin College, all in North Carolina.〔 Snyder arrived in California in 1880 at age 22, and he was married to May Ross of Washington, D.C., on February 14, 1888, in San Diego, California. They had one child, Ross Snyder, who was killed in World War I at the Battle of Chateau-Thierry in France.〔(Karel Lynn and Clare Wallace, Los Angeles Public Library reference file, 1935 and 1937, with sources as referenced there )〕 Snyder was a Mason and an Elk and a member of the Jonathan Club, the Los Angeles Country Club, the Lomita Gun Club, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights Templar. He was a Protestant and a Democrat. His nickname was Pinky, "because of the color of his flaming red "side-burns."〔〔 He died at the Jonathan Club on April 7, 1937, at the age of 78, and his body lay in state in the City Hall, with interment at Hollywood Cemetery.〔〔("Death Ends Career of Meredith Snyder, Four Times Mayor of L.A.," ''Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express," April 8, 1937 )〕〔("Plan Tribute to Former Mayor 'Pinky' Snyder," ''Los Angeles Herald-Express, undated )〕 In 1990, the city of Hermosa Beach, California, included Pinxton's "extensively remodeled home" at No. 2020 The Strand on a map guide to home of notable people in that city.〔("Former Homes of Stars," ''Los Angeles Times'' November 4, 1990, page VYB12 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meredith P. Snyder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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