Eisenhower Never Went Anywhere Without His Cheyenne

Born in Cheyenne to a respected Civil War veteran, businessman and community leader, Howard McCrum Snyder was 10 years old when his father died.

Albert Snyder had served as Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s chief of telegraphy during the last months of the Civil War and earlier as a soldier in a Pennsylvania unit that participated on the frontline of the bloodiest battle of the war — Antietam.

The youngest of three sons born to Albert C. Snyder and his wife, Priscilla, on Feb. 7, 1881, Howard Snyder like his dad would go on to play an important role for a winning general and future president.

That was as his doctor.

Snyder’s military retirement was shelved twice, so he could serve Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower first as World War II ended and later as the presidential family physician through t