admin JAMES SANGSTER was born in Kingston, Canada. As a child he came with his parents to Buffalo and was educated in the public schools. For some years he worked for his father, and then went to New York City, where he spent a year under the instruction of an eminent sculptor, Henry K. Brown. On returning to Buffalo Mr, Sangster engaged in the pursuit of his art and mechanical engineering, being successful in both fields. In 1863 he entered the business of securing patents, which he followed alone till 1870, when he formed a copartnership with Victor H. Becker, under the firm style of Sangster & Becker. Mr. Sangster later continued the business alone till 1897, when he associated with him his son, Arthur J. Sangster, under the firm name of James Sangster & Co. In politics Mr. Sangster was a Republican, belonged to Buffalo Lodge, No. 37, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and attended old Grace Methodist Church.
June 1, 1864, Mr. Sangster married Miss Sophronia Moore of Buffalo, who died in 1881. The surviving children of the union are: Arthur J., of Buffalo, and Cora S., now a teacher in the Lafayette High School.
James Sangster was a good man, a superior type of citizen and a man held in high esteem by the community. Largely self-educated, he was all his life earnest in the pursuit of culture. He possessed a fine talent for sculpture.
SOURCE: Memorial and Family History of Erie County New York; Volume I