Gustavus Sniper

Sniper was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Grand Duchy of Baden. He emigrated with his family to Syracuse, New York in 1842, where he was educated in Syracuse public schools, and supplemented his education by attending night school. After the war, he was elected county clerk, deputy collector of internal revenue, and to the New York State Assembly three times. Sniper died in 1894 at his home at 504 North Prospect Street, and was buried in Syracuse's Woodlawn Cemetery. ==Honors==

On Decoration Day, May 30, 1905, an equestrian statue of Sniper was unveiled in what was then known as Schlosser Park, a small triangle of grass on Syracuse’s northside, bordered by North Salina, North State, and East Laurel streets. The statue's sword was stolen many times, until the city stopped replacing it in the 1950s. It is Syracuse's only equestrian statue. ==References==