admin FRANK ST. JOHN SIDWAY, lawyer and business man, is a representative example of Buffalo’s best class of citizenship. Mr. Sidway is a grandson of E. G. Spaulding, the illustrious financier who devised the Government’s currency measures during the Civil War. The subject of this sketch was born in Buffalo December 5, 1869. He was educated at Phillips-Exeter Academy and Harvard University, later entering the Buffalo Law School, from which he was graduated in 1894. The same year he was admitted to the bar from the law offices of Lewis, Moot & Lewis, and began the practice of his profession in Buffalo, where he has built up a large and valuable business.
He devotes himself chiefly to office practice and to the management of estates.
Early in his career, Mr. Sidway became identified with the National Guard. In March, 1894, he entered the service as Second Lieutenant of Company B, 74th Kegiment; a year later was commissioned First Lieutenant, and in the fall of 1897 was elected Captain. When war was declared against Spain he organized Company C, 202d Regiment, and was chosen its Captain, being one of the first four captains to be mustered in. He went to Cuba, served through the campaign, and his regiment was the first body of United States troops to enter Havana. April 15, 1899, Captain Sidway was mustered out, and on his return to Buffalo was chosen Captain of Company B, 74th Regiment, which rank he held until his resignation, October 1, 1902.
Mr. Sidway is a member of the Buffalo and Saturn Clubs, the Buffalo Historical Society, the United Spanish War Veterans and the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish American War, and a life member of the Buffalo Library and the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
Mr. Sidway married Amelia Roberts, daughter of the Hon. James A. Roberts, former Comptroller of the State of New York, on April 16, 1903. They have one daughter, Margaret St. John.
SOURCE: Memorial and Family History of Erie County New York; Volume I