Gustav A. Schneebeli

Gustav Adolphus Schneebeli (May 23, 1853 – February 6, 1923), 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.