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Rh New York city. He was not a member of the body by which he was elected, nor had he served in any previous general conference. He was only thirty- eight years old, and though widely known by means of his labors in behalf of the Bible society, yet he had escaped all complication with the sub- ject of the church's relation to slavery, which then agitated it, and so he was not unacceptable to either party. In the discharge of the duties of his office he visited and revisited nearly every state and territory of the country. In 1854 he visited Europe, having been commissioned to represent his church at the session of the British Wesleyan inference. While abroad he visited both the Irish and French Methodist conferences, and also the missions of his own church in Germany and Swit- zerland, and in Norway and Sweden. As a preach- er Bishop Janes was a model of simplicity and correctness. He resided in New York from his election to the episcopacy till his death. — His twin brother, Edwin L., clergyman, b. in Shef- field, Mass., 27 April, 1807 ; d. in Flushing, L. I., 10 Jan., 1875, taught from 1825 till 1831, and in 1832 joined the Philadelphia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was appointed Sastor in West Philadelphia. He held charges in few York, Brooklyn, Bridgeport, and elsewhere, for six years was a secretary of the National tem- perance society, and also labored earnestly for the poor. His works include " Wesley his Own Biogra- pher " (New York, 1870) ; " Incidents in the Life of Bishop Asbury " (1872) ; and " Recollections in the Life of the Rev. Dr. Edward Payson " (1873).

JANES, Edward Houghton, physician, b. in Northfield, Franklin co., Mass., 3 Oct.. 1820. He was educated in the Delaware literary institute, Franklin county, N. Y., and was graduated at the Berkshire medical college in 1847. He settled in practice in New York city in 1850, was for a short period during the civil war in the service of the sanitary commission, and appointed sanitary in- spector by the Metropolitan board of health in 1866. Since 1873 he has been assistant superintendent of the New York health department. In 1872 he was appointed to the chair of hygiene in the Women's medical college of the New York infirmary. He was one of the original members of the American public health association, and was its recording secretary from 1877 till 1880. He has published a "Report on Condensed Milk" (1858), "Report on the Sanitary Condition of New York" (New York. 1865), annual reports to the American pub- lic health association, and papers on professional subjects.

JANEWAY, Jacob Jones, clergyman, b. in New York city, 20 Nov., 1774 ; d. in New Bruns- wick, N. J., 27 June, 1858. His family came from England early in the 17th century, one of whom bore with him the charter of Trinity church, of which he was a vestryman. He died about 1708. Jacob was graduated at Columbia in 1794, and after studying theology with Dr. John H. Livingston was ordained in 1799 a colleague of Dr. Ashbel Green in the 2d Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, where he remained till 1828. After holding for one year the chair of theology in the Western theological seminary, he was pastor of a Dutch Reformed church in New Brunswick, N. J., for two years. He was elected a trustee of Rutgers in 1820, and in 1833-'9 was vice-president of that college and professor of literature, the evidences of Christianity, and political economy. He then became a trustee of Princeton, and was engaged till his death in general missionary work and in supervision of theological and collegiate institutions in the Presbyterian church. He was a director of Princeton theological seminary from 1813 till 1830 and again from 1840 till 1858, and president of the board from 1849 till 1858. He joined his friend, Dr. Jona- than Cogswell, of New Brunswick, in the gift of a church to the Presbyterians of that citv. His pub- lications include " Commentaries on Romans, He- brews, and Acts" (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1866); "Internal Evidence of the Holy Bible"; "Com- municants' Manual"; "On Unlawful Marriage" (New York, 1844); "Review of Dr. Schaff on Protestantism"; and essays and letters on relig- ious subjects. See "Memoir of Rev. Jacob J. Janeway," by his son, Thomas L. Janeway (Phila- delphia, 1861). — His grandson, Edward Gama- liel, physician, b. in New York city, 31 Aug., 1841, was graduated at Rutgers in 1860, after which, during 1862-'3, he was acting medical cadet in the U. S. army hospital in Newark, N. J., and was graduated at the College of physicians and surgeons in 1864. Dr. Janeway then settled in New York, where he has ever since practised. His connection with Bellevue hospital medical college began in 1868, when he was appointed one of its curators. In 1872 he was called to the chair of physiology and pathological anatomy in the medi- cal department of the University of the city of New York, but at the end of a year he returned to Bellevue as professor of materia medica and thera- peutics. This appointment he held until 1876, when he became professor of pathological anatomy and histology, diseases of the nervous system, ana clinical medicine. In 1881 he added the instruc- tion in principles and practice of medicine to his duties, and he also delivered the lectures on mate- ria medica and therapeutics from 1873 till 1876. Dr. Janeway was appointed health commissioner of the city of New ork in 1875, and filled that appointment until 1882. He held visiting ap- pointments to the Charity hospital in 1868-'71, to the Hospital for epileptics and paralytics in 1870-'4, and to Bellevue hospital since 1871, being also one of the pathologists to that institution since 1867. As a diagnostician he has a high reputation, and his consulting practice is very large. He is a mem- ber of numerous medical societies, was vice-presi- dent of the New York pathological society in 1874, and has been president of the New York medical journal association.

JANNEY, Samuel Macpherson, author, b. in Loudon county, Va., 11 Jan., 1801 ; d. there, 30 April, 1880. He was a minister of the Society of Friends, and travelled extensively in this capacity. In 1869 he was appointed by President Grant superintendent of Indian affairs in the northern superintendency. He was the author of a prize poem entitled " The Country School-House " (1825) ; " Conversations on Religious Subjects " (1835 ; 3d ed., Philadelphia, 1843) ; " The Last of the Lenape, and Other Poems " (1839) ; " The Teacher's Gift," essays in prose and verse (1840); "An Historical Sketch of the Christian Church during the Middle Ages "(1847); " Life of William Penn"(1852; 3d ed., 1856); "Life of George Fox" (1853); and a " History of the Religious Society of Friends, from its Rise to the Year 1828 " (4 vols., 1860-'7).— His brother. Asa Moore, philanthropist, b. in Loudon county, Va., 18 Sept., 1802 ; d. there, 31 May, 1871. In 1836 he removed to Richmond with his family, and had charge of Gallego mills, one of the largest flouring-mills in the south. He resided in Loudon county from I860 till 1869, when he was appointed agent for the Santee Sioux Indians in Nebraska. He labored faithfully for the advancement of these Indians, doing much to improve their moral and