St. John, Le Grand C., (Cannon), 1808-1870.

Le Grand C. St. John was born in Williamsville, NY in 1808 to Margaret Marsh and Gamaliel St. John. In the winter of 1813-1814, several years after the family moved to Buffalo to operate a tavern, Le Grand witnessed the burning of Buffalo. Le Grand St. John never married but moved into the Sidway Mansion with his sister, Parnell St. John Sidway, when her husband, Jonathan Sidway, died in 1847. Le Grand would live in Buffalo for the remainder of his life as a self-described "gentleman" artist and inventor, filing patents for a steam heater and a boat propellor in the 1850s. He was interred at Buffalo City (i.e. Forest Lawn) Cemetery in 1870.--See "The Enduring Legacies of the St. John, Sidway & Spaulding Families" by Christopher N. Brown and David F. Granville in Western New York Heritage, Vol. 8, no. 1.

From the description of Reminiscence and sketches, c. 1825-1862. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 560637487

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