Doctor Niram N. St.John

Notes:

Dr. N.N. St. John, one of the leading physicians of Steuben county died at his home in Howard last week. He was for many years a resident of the southern part of this town, but the last ten or fifteen years of his life had been spent in Wayland, where he was for several terms president of that village. He was a very skillful physician and had a very large practice in this town and Wayland as long as he was able to attend to it. He was a man of great will power ad if the strictest integrity. Only a short time before his death he moved to a farm in Howard. The funeral was held at Wayland on Monday of this week.
(Springwater Enterprise - July 15, 1897)

Dr. Northrup N. St. John, was born in Webster, Monroe county, N.Y., Nov 26, 1829. His grandfather, Northrup St. John, was born in Danbury, Fairfield county, Conn., and died in Webster, Monroe county, N.Y. Niram St. John, father of Northrup N., was born in Danbury, Conn., October 18, 1804, and died in Springwater, August 2, 1882. He was a farmer by occupation, and married Hannah M. Stratton, who was born in Catskill, N.Y., April 2, 1805, and died February 25, 1895. They had three children: Rosalia J:, who was born December 14, 1825, and died June 14, 1846; Northrup N., as above; and Huldah A., who was born February 27, 1833.
Northrup N. attended the common district schools of Webster, and afterwards moved to Springwater, N.Y., where he attended school for a time. He studied medicine with Dr. Hiram Hess, in Wayland, for one year, when he took a medical course at Buffalo Medical College, and commenced the practice of medicine at Springwater, N.Y., where he remained about ten years. He practiced in Atlanta, N.Y., for six years, after which he moved to Wayland, where he has practiced his profession continuously for twenty years. At Springwater, in 1848, he married Ann Howell, who was born November 22, 1828, by whom he had one child, Ella R., who was born July 8, 1854, married Austin Salter, and resides in Springwater; they have one child, Minnie L. March 16, 1866. Mr. St. John married for his second wife, Lucretia Ashley, who was born July 23,1848, by whom he had three children: Verne A., who was born April 25, 1871; Byrd E., who was born April 25, 1875; and Clare A., who was born March 21, 1881. Verne A. and Byrd E. are teachers, now attending the Geneseo Normal School, of Geneseo, N.Y. Mr. St. John has been president of Wayland eight years, and trustee two years.
(From Hakes 1896 Landmarks of Steuben County)

Family/Spouse: Chloe Ann Howell. Chloe (daughter of John Howell and Lydia Reed) was born on 22 Nov 1827; died in Oct 1917 in Springwater, Livingston County, New York; was buried in Ashley Cemetery, Springwater, Livingston County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]