. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. -^^Tm-l a:f^^^f^^ ^ DEACON JOHN ST. JOHN, son of John, Sr., and Susannah St. John, was born at Hubbardton, Rutland Co., Vt., Sept. 29, 1792. His parents were natives of Fairfield Co., Conn., and settled in Vermont. The St. Johns are of English origin, and John St. John's mother was of French and English descent. At the age of seven Mr. St. John commenced living with an uncle, with whom he remaine
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. -^^Tm-l a:f^^^f^^ ^ DEACON JOHN ST. JOHN, son of John, Sr., and Susannah St. John, was born at Hubbardton, Rutland Co., Vt., Sept. 29, 1792. His parents were natives of Fairfield Co., Conn., and settled in Vermont. The St. Johns are of English origin, and John St. John's mother was of French and English descent. At the age of seven Mr. St. John commenced living with an uncle, with whom he remained till he was twenty- one. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. About 1816 he emigrated to Steuben County, and made a permanent settlement in the spring of 1817 on the farm now owned by Ira Hendrick, and has lived in this locality ever since. On Oct. 1, 1821, he married Lucinda Shumway, daughter of Elijah and Chloe Shumway, of Woodstock, Mass. Mrs. St. John was born, Feb. 5,1798, at Pomfret, Conn. Four children were born, viz.: Clarissa S., who married Wm. Nichols, Esq., of Bath. Minerva, who married Dr. Daniel Slauson, of Corning; they had three children, one of whom, John, lived with his grandparents and family after he was about one and a half years old, and continued to do so till the fall of 1875, when he went to Port Hudson and resided with his father until the terrible epidemic of 1878 occurred in the South, when he and his father both fell victims to the yellow fever; the son preceded his father only three days. Francis O., another son of Deacon St. John, resides at home with his father, and his daughter, Sarah A., is living with her father and brother. In politics Deacon St. John is a Democrat. He cast his first presidential vote for President Madison when he was a candidate the second time, and has been able to vote at every presidential election since. He has been assessor of Hornby. When a young man he and Mrs. St. John joined the Baptist Church of Hornby, and for n
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