Elias Weber Bingeman Snider (June 19, 1842 – October 15, 1921) was an Ontario businessman and political figure.
He represented Waterloo North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1881 to 1894.
[1] He was born in Waterloo, Canada West in 1842, the son of a farmer and Mennonite minister, and, after leaving school at 12, worked on the family farm and then at the family's gristmills in German Mills (later Kitchener), becoming mill manager in 1862.
In 1871, he purchased a mill at St. Jacobs, replacing the millstones with rollers, which produced a better quality of flour.
In 1884, he purchased a foundry at Waterloo, which produced agricultural implements and machinery.