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9, 1837, and transferred to the receiving-ghip Baltimore. He was promoted captain, June 4, 1844 ; commanded the frigate Cumberland, home squadron, 1847-48 ; commanded the razee Inde- pendence, Mediterranean squadron, 1851-53 ; was

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placed on the reserved list, Sept. 13, 1855, and was promoted commodore, July 16, 1862. He favored the preservation of the Union, and dur- ing the civil war he was invalided, residing at Alexandria, Va. He was retired, April 4, 1867, and died at Alexandria, Va., Oct. 6, 1873.

JAHISON, Cecelia Viets (Dakin), author, was born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1848 ; daughter of Viets and Elizabeth (Bruce) Dakin ; granddaughter of John and Sarah (Lewis) Bruce and of Jacob and Mary (Viets) Dakin and great- granddaughter of the Rev. Roger Viets, rector of St. Andrews, Granby, Conn., before the Revolu- tion. The Lewis, Viets and Bruce families were residents of Nova Scotia and Tories in the Amer- ican Revolution. She was educated in private schools in America and Europe, and after 1870 devoted herself to literature. She was married, Oct. 28, 1878, to Samuel Jamison, of New Orleans, La. She is the author of : Woven of Many Threads (1872) ; Croivn from the Spear (1874) ; Ropes of Sand (1876) ; Lillij of San Miniato (1878) ; Story of an Enthusiast (1888) ; Lady Jane (1891) ; Toinette's Philip (1893) ; Seraph, the Little Violinist (1895) ; also short stories in Harper's, St. Nicholas and other magazines.

JANES, Edmund Storer, M.E. bishop, was born in Sheffield, Mass., April 27, 1807 ; son of Benjamin and Sally (Wood) Janes ; grandson of Thomas Janes, a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and a descendant of William Janes, of Essex, England, who came to America with the John Davenport colony in 1637 ; settled in New Haven the same year, and in 1656 removed to Northampton, Mass., where he died, Sept. 20, 1690. His father was a carpenter and farmer, and removed to Salisbury, Conn., when Edmund was quite young, and he was educated in the district school. WJien seventeen years old he taught school at Ancram Furnace, Livingston

Manor, N.Y., and continued as a district school teacher, 1824-29, at the same time studying both law and theolog}'. In 1830 he was reconnnended to the Philadelijhia conference for the regular ministry in the Methodist Episcopal church, and he was received on trial. He first serv- ed at Elizabethtown, N.J., 1826-27 and also 1831-32, and after- ward at Bloomfield and Orange. He was financial agent of Dickinson college, 1834-40. He was mar- ried in May, 1835, to Charlotte Thibou, of New York city. He was in charge of Fifth Street church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1835-37, during which time he took a course in medicine ; of the church at Nazareth, Pa., 1837-39 ; Mulberry Street church. New York city, 1839-40, and financial secretary of the American Bible society, 1840-44. On June 7, 1844, he was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was con.secrated, June 10, and presided first over the New England and then the Kentvicky confer- ence in 1844 ; the Maine conference in 1845, and the Troy, Black River and Genesee conferences in New York in 1846 ; also the Michigan confer- ence and in the northwest, 1846-47, followed by general conference work as far west as the limits of the continent and south to the gulf. He made his home in New York city and established a sum- mer home at Mount Wesley, near Morristown, N.J. He visited Europe, 1861, and attended tlie Ger- man mission conference and the Wesleyan con- ference in England. He was a delegate to the British and Foreign Bible society and to the French, English and Irish Wesleyan conferences in 1865, and while in Berlin preached a discourse on the death of President Lincoln which was printed and largely read through Germany and northern Europe, favorably directing public senti- ment at a critical period in the historj^ of the American republic. He attended the South Car- olina conference at Camden, Feb. 11-13, 1869, and the New Orleans and Texas conferences in De- cember, 1871. His advancing yeai's compelled a restriction of his travel in 1875, and he was given charge of the conferences of Delaware and Wil- mington, but went west as far as Indianapolis in September. The protracted illness of his wife, 1875-76, confined his labors to the neighborhood of New York city, and his last conference was Delaware, held in Philadelphia, Pa., July 20-24,