Gustav A. Schneebeli

Gustav Adolphus Schneebeli was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania from 1905 to 1907.

Biography

Schneebeli was born in Neusalz, Prussian Silesia. He immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended the Moravian Parochial School. They later moved to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and entered upon a mercantile career.

Career

He founded the knit-goods industry of the Nazareth Waist Co. In 1888 he established a lace manufacturing company, of which he became sole owner.

Congress

Schneebeli was elected as a Republican to the 59th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906.

Later career and death

He continued in the lace manufacturing business until his death in Nazareth in 1923. Interment in Moravian Cemetery.