page_title: Franklin Sidway
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Franklin Sidway / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Buffalo Savings Bank, 545 Main Street, Buffalo, NY
context_page_description: Franklin Sidway was an American businessman and banker from Buffalo, New York, known for building the Sidway Building in Buffalo, the Spaulding-Sidway house in Grand Island, and commissioning the 1865 painting, Interior with Portraits, by American artist Thomas Le Clear.
context_section_description: Sidway was one of the organizers and founders of Sidway, Skinner & Moore, general ship chandlers and grocers. Sidway, Skinner & Moore was very successful up until 1861, when it was dissolved due to the American Civil War.
  Shortly after his marriage in 1866, Sidway joined Farmers and Mechanics Bank as assistant cashier in January 1867, and in January 1872 became cashier. Later he was promoted to vice president of the bank, a role in which he served until the bank's dissolution in 1898. Sidway also served as a trustee of the Buffalo Savings Bank.
caption: Buffalo Savings Bank in 1904
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