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SCHNEIDER, George, banker, born in Pirmasens, Rhenish Bavaria, 13 December, 1823. He was educated in the schools of his native place, became a journalist at the age of twenty-one, and, after taking an active part in revolutionary movements, came to this country in July, 1849. He established the "Neue Zeit" in St. Louis, Missouri, and afterward removed to Chicago, where, in 1861, he was appointed collector of internal revenue. He was subsequently president of the State savings institution till 1871, when he became president of the National bank of Illinois. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1856 and 1860, presidential elector on the Garfield ticket in 1880, and *'or a short time in 1876 served as United States minister to Switzerland.
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