Who is Margaret Kinsman Marsh
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Margaret Kinsman Marsh is the Grandmother of Margaret Marsh St. John Andrews. She was quite a lady according to the "Pioneer Families of Cleveland". It says "she was a woman of remarkably strong character, and that this trait was transmitted in a marked degree was evidenced by the lives of her children and grandchildren".
Table of Contents
- Grandparents of Margaret Kinsman Marsh
- Parents of Margaret Kinsman Marsh
- Children of Cyrus and Margaret Marsh
- Children Of Margaret Kinsman Marsh and Gamaliel St. John
- Orson Swift St. John
- Margaret Marsh St. John Andrews
- Margaret Kinsman Marsh-St. John's Headstone
- Links About Margaret Kinsman Marsh St. John
- Family History
- Guestbook
Grandparents of Margaret Kinsman Marsh
Paternal Grandparents
William Marsh
Born 1685 in Plainfield, Windham, CT - Died Jan. 23, 1759
He Married Mar. 2, 1712
Sarah Button
Born April 8, 1695 in Plainfield, Windham, CT - Died Feb. 21, 1739
William Marsh
Born 1685 in Plainfield, Windham, CT - Died Jan. 23, 1759
He Married Mar. 2, 1712
Sarah Button
Born April 8, 1695 in Plainfield, Windham, CT - Died Feb. 21, 1739
- Maternal Grandparents
Robert Kinsman
Born May 21, 1677 in Ipswich, Essex, MA - Died 1761
He Married,
Rebecca Burley
Born March 29, 1683 in Ipswich, Essex, MA - Died April 29, 1775
Parents of Margaret Kinsman Marsh
- Rev Cyrus Marsh
Born March 14, 1718 - Died 1771
He Married,
Margaret Kinsman
Born May 25, 1718
Children of Cyrus and Margaret Marsh
- Cyrus Marsh Jr.
- Margaret Kinsman Marsh
Born July 15, 1768 In Wilton Ct. MA - Died April 29, 1847
Children Of Margaret Kinsman Marsh and Gamaliel St. John
Margaret Kinsman Marsh married Gamaliel St. John October 16, 1788.
- Maria St. John
Born March 13, 1791 - Died March 27, 1864 - Aurelia St. John
Born Jan 25, 1793 - Died December 29, 1883 - Elijah Northrop St. John
Born August 20, 1789 - Died June 6, 1813 - Cyrus Marsh St. John
Born February 17, 1796 - Died November 9, 1812 - Sarah St. John
Born February 27, 1797 - Died April 1838 - Margaret St. John
Born August 25, 1799 - Died 1806 - Parnell St. John
Born July 27 1803 - Died April 22, 1879 - Martha St. John
Born July 27, 1803 - Died March 11, 1868 - John St. John
Born July 5, 1805 - Died December 14, 1868 - Margaret St. John
Born August 25, 1806 - Died July 26, 1849 - LeGrand Cannon St. John
Born March 2, 1808 - Died October 16, 1870 - Orson Swift St. John
Born May 28, 1810 - Died July 7, 1897
Orson Swift St. John
Orson Swift St. John is the son of Margaret Kinsman Marsh and the Father of Margaret Marsh St. John Andrews.-
Orson Swift St. John
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Orson Swift St. John MD, was the father of Margaret Marsh St. John Andrews. Born May 28, 1810, he Died July 7, 1897. He was a prominent doctor in the Cleveland area of Ohio. According to records in the "Pioneer Families of Cleveland", "he was one of...
Margaret Marsh St. John Andrews
Margaret Marsh St. John Andrews is the granddaughter of Margaret Kinsman Marsh.-
Margaret Marsh St John
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Margaret Marsh St. John was a woman with a vision...creating a school for educating women. Her vision was not recognized until several years after her tragic death in 1899. Her brother Gamaliel St. John fought to accomplish her vision forming Andrews...
Margaret Kinsman Marsh-St. John's Headstone
Links About Margaret Kinsman Marsh St. John
as written by her daughter Margaret St. John, sister to Orson St. John.
- Margaret St. John
- Born Margaret Kinsman Marsh in 1767, Margaret married Gamaliel St.
John in 1788 and moved to Buffalo in 1810 where the couple erected a hotel & cottage.
The following years were tough on Mrs. St. John. Her son, Cyrus, died of camp distemper in December of 1812. Her husband and another son, Elijah, both drowned while attempting to ferry the Niagara River on June 6, 1813, to resupply American troops occupying Fort Erie.
On December 30, 1813, as the British were burning Buffalo. Mrs. St. John pleaded with Major General Phinas Riall, the British Commander, not to burn her property. That night her properties were not burned. Upon the return of the British on January 1, 1814, the larger dwelling was burned down. The other house was saved making it only one of four structures to remain standing when the British left. This house was located at what is today 460 Main Street. - Margaret St. John
- My parents were from the towns of Norwalk and Kent, in the State of Connecticut. My father was from Norwalk and my mother from Kent.
My mother, Margaret Kinsman Marsh, was the daughter of Cyrus Marsh, who was the first Presbyterian clergyman settled in the township of Kent, according to Connecticut annals
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Gamaliel St. John [author's father] was born Sept. 22, 1766. He died June 6, 1813. My mother was born in Wilton, Connecticut, July 15, 1768; died April 29, 1847.
They were married in Kent October 16, 1788, and took up their residence in a house built by them in the village of Danbury, Connecticut, where they lived for several years, and until they had born unto them five children ....
Partaking of the spirit of emigrating to the West, they moved to the town of Westmoreland, Oneida Co., N. Y., where was born their daughter Margaret. During their residence in Oneida County my father entered into contract with the proper persons for constructing a portion of the turnpike from Albany to Cayuga Lake. His contract called for the necessary work to be done on a section of seven or eight miles between the Cayuga and Owasco lakes. That work necessitated their removal to Cayuga County. During their stay in Cayuga there were born unto them three children ....
My father removed with his family, in the year 1807, to a farm in Williamsville, then Niagara County, now Erie County; on which farm is still to be seen the large spring that constitutes the source of the Mill Creek at the village of Williamsville, and which is one of the tributaries of the Tonawanda Creek. But he did not move his family until he had made, in the previous spring, a tour of observation that extended all along the Niagara frontier. The farm thus selected was then the property of Mr. Andrew Ellicott, a brother of Joseph Ellicott.
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The House in Buffalo
The family moved to Buffalo in the spring of 1810, having previously bought of Mrs. Chapman a claim for Lot No. 53, Holland Land Co. survey, on which was the frame for a house, forty feet square, standing on blocks, and back of which was an appendix of twenty feet square, one and a half stories high, enclosed and floored, having a chimney with the old-fashioned fireplace, and baking oven by the side of the fireplace. Lot 53 is directly opposite the Tifft House, which is on the site of the old Phoenix hotel.
Into this apology for a house the family, then consisting of the parents and ten children, moved on or about the 10th of May, 1810. On the 28th day of that month, in the chamber of the above-mentioned appendix, was born the eleventh child, Orson Swift St. John.
The price paid Mrs. Chapman for Lot 53 and appurtenances was $4,000; and $200 paid to Mr. Ellicott procured the deed.
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The lumber for the covering and finishing of the house purchased of Mrs. Chapman was all drawn from Williamsville; the logs for which had been cut and drawn to the saw-mill during the winter previous (the winter of 1809-10), The shingles for the house were all made during the same winter by my father and his boys, Elijah and Cyrus. Much of this material was drawn in the winter before moving to Buffalo, and the remainder was drawn afterwards as it could be got through the mill.
The cellar was made of the dimensions of the whole house, and the stones with which the walls were laid up were drawn from the quarries of Judge Erastus Granger on the banks of the Three-mile Creek, east of the then village of Buffalo. That creek was known where it emptied into the Niagara River below the then ferry at the foot of Niagara Street as the Scajaquada, commonly pronounced Conjockada. .
Family History
From The Pioneer Families CLEVELAND 1796 - 1840.ST. JOHN
When, in the War of 1812, the British and Indians burned the hamlet of Buffalo, N. Y., one house, on Main street, was left standing unharmed among the ruins. It belonged to Mrs. Margaret Kinsman Marsh, widow of Gamaliel St. John, formerly of Norwalk, Conn., who had been drowned in Niagara river a few years previous. Moreover, a large store-house belonging to her was also left unmolested through her tact and powers of persuasion. She was a woman of remarkably strong character, and that this trait was transmitted in a marked degree was evidenced by the lives of her children and grandchildren who were pioneers of our sister city and also of our own.
The Cleveland Herald in 1820 records the marriage of her daughter Sarah St. John to Samuel Wilkinson "all of Buffalo, N. Y." This daughter and her sisters Aurelia St. John-Mrs. Asaph Bemis-and Caroline St. John-Mrs. Jonathan Sibley-passed their long and prosperous lives in Buffalo universally recognized as the city's society leaders. The two younger sisters removed to this place as brides. They were Maria St. John, who married Asaph Fiske, and Martha St. John, who became Mrs. Orville Bird Skinner.
As girls, the St. John sisters were fine-looking women who always dressed in the height of fashion. Their mother was prosperous in business investments, and liberal and indulgent with her children. Previous
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to their marriages Maria and Martha St. John often visited in Cleveland, and their arrival settled all questions of style either in clothes or manners.
Madame Severance recalls the sensation they created, one fall, by appearing in church and upon the streets in long velvet capes lined with red or blue satin.
"Quite such elegance was overwhelming to our small frontier town," remarked Mrs. Severance.
The eldest son of the St. John family was John R. St. John, born 1805, who made Cleveland his home some years before it was incorporated as a city; when, upon that event, he became councilman from the first ward. In 1839, he was chosen chief of the volunteer fire department. He was at that time a dashing young man, handsome, alert, fiery of speech, irresistible in persuasion, who could sway a crowd at will by his impetuosity and his eloquence. He married late in life Susan Amelia Harley of Rockport, N. Y. He was living in New York City in 1857, one of the firm of Houghtaling & Co. He died in 1868.
Orson St. John, M. D., was the youngest son of Madame St. John of Buffalo. He was living in Cleveland as early as 1832, for he was one of the three physicians appointed by the city council to constitute a board of health to cope with the threatened menace of Asiatic cholera.
Dr. St. John stood high in his profession, which he followed in this locality and in Willoughby through all his life. He married Louise M. Card of the latter place, and afterwards made his home in that town, though keeping in touch with the medical profession in Cleveland. Dr. St. John's residence in the city was on Erie street near Euclid. The Lenox building covers the site of his home. His only daughter Margaret St. John was a beautiful woman in person and in character.
Children of Orson and Louise Card St. John:
Thomas St. John, b. 1842; died 19 years of age..
Margaret St. John, b. 1846; m. Wallace C. Andrews of Cleveland.
Gamaliel St. John, b. 1848; m. Georgia Boyden
Orson St. John, Jr., b. 1852.
Wallace C. Andrews, who married Margaret St. John, was a wealthy Standard Oil man, and removing to New Yo rk, lived there in a beautiful home in a fashionable part of the city. One day, April 7, 1899, while the wife and three children of Mrs. Andrews' brother, Gamaliel St. John, were there on a visit, a terrible gas explosion wrecked the house, killing Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Gamaliel St. John, all three of the St. John children, and two servants.
The homestead in Willoughby and two million dollars were left by will to found an industrial school for girls in Willoughby. No use was made of the bequest for many years, but finally, in 1911, the school was started on a small scale. Gamaliel St. John married again, and died in New York.
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