Henry Nelson Snyder (January 14, 1865 – September 18, 1949) was an American Methodist educator and author.
[1] He attended Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity, graduating in 1887.
[1] Snyder was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South Joint Commission, in which capacity he argued in favour of racial segregation.
He died at the Mary Black Hospital at the age of 84 on September 18, 1949, one day short of the fifty-ninth anniversary of his arrival in Spartanburg.
After funeral services at the Wofford College Chapel (now known as the Leonard Auditorium, in the Old Main building), Dr. Snyder was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Spartanburg, South Carolina.