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1876. His wife died Aug. 16, 1876, in New York city. He preached liis last sernion in the church of his son, the Rev. Lewis T. Janes, at Maple- wood, N.J., Aug. 27, 1876, and he died at his home in New York city after forty-six years in the ministry and thirty-two years as a bishop. He was lionored with the degi'ees A.M., 1843, D.D., 1844. and LL.D., 1870, by Dickinson college. See The Life of Edmund S. Janes, D.D., LL.D., late Senior Bishojj of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Henry R. Ridgeway (1882). He died in New York city. Sept. 18, 1876.

JANES, Henry Fisk, repi'esentative, was born in Briinfield, Mass., Oct. 10, 1792; son of Solomon and Beulah (Fisk) James. His parents removed to Calais, Vt., where he was brought up. He studied law at Montpelier, Vt., and served in a company enlisted at Montpelier in the war of 1812, at the battle of Plattsburgh. He was admitted to the bar in 1817, and settled in Waterbury, Vt., in the practice of law. He was postmaster of Waterbury, 1820-29 ; state coun- cillor, 1830-33 ; representative in the 23d and 24th congresses, 1833-37 ; state treasurer, 1838-41 ; member of the council of censors of the state, 1848, and a re^jresentative in the state legislature several terms between 1848 and 1855. He was married, in 1826, to Fannie, daughter of Gen. Ezi"a Butler, and their son. Dr. Henry James, was a surgeon in the civil war, 1861-65. Henry Fisk James died at Waterbury, Vt., June 6, 1879.

JANES, Lewis George, educator, was born in Providence, R.I., Feb. 19, 1844 ; son of Al- phonso R. and Sophia (Taft) Janes ; grandson of Walter and Cynthia (Richards) Janes and of Marcus and Marcia (Howard) Taft, and a de- scendant of William Janes, one of the first set- tlers of New Haven colony, who came to Ameri- ca in tiie ship Hector from England, in 1637. Among his ancestors on his father's side was Gov. William Bradford, of Plymouth colonj', and on his mother's side, Peregrine White, born on the Mayflorcer. He was graduated from the Providence high school in 1862, and prepared for admission to Brown university, but did not graduate on account of ill-health. He continued his studies privately in subsequent years. He was president of the Brooklj-n Ethical associ- ation, 1885-96 ; lecturer on sociology and civics in the School of Political Science, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1893-96 ; instructor in history at Adelphi academy, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1894-95, and director of the Cambridge Conference at Cambridge, Mass., and the Monsalvat School of Compara- tive Religion at Eliot, Maine, from 1896. In June, 1899, he became president of the Free Religious association of America, succeeding Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. He was made a member of the Authors' club, the

Twentieth Century club, and the Appalachian Mountain club, of Boston, and a director of the Congress of Religions. He was also a member of the Congres de I'histoire des Religions, which met in Paris in September, 1900, and a " membra etranger " of the Association Frangaise pour I'Avancement des Sciences, during its twenty- ninth session. He received the degree of A.M. from Brown university in 1895. He is the anther of: A Study of Primitive Christianity (1886) ; Evolution of Morals (1889) ; Life as a Fine Art (1891); Sa7nuel T^jrton, A Forgotten Founder of Our Liberties (1896) ; and monographs on ethical, sociological, historical and religious topics. He died in Eliot, Maine. S,iit. 4, 1901.

JANEWAY, Edward Gamaliel, physician, was born in New York city, Aug. 31, 1841 ; son (.f Dr. George Jacob and Matilda (Smith) Janeway and grandson of the Rev. Dr. Jacob Jones and Martha Gray (Leiper) Janeway, and of Gamaliel Smith of New York city. He was graduated at Rutgers college, A.B., 1860, A.M., 1863, and at Columbia college, M.D., 1864. He was a medical cadet at the U.S. Military hospital, Newark, N. J., 1862-63, and became a practitioner in New York city in 1864. He was curator of Bellevue hospi- tal in 1868 ; professor of i)h}-siology and pathologi- cal anatomy in the medical department. Univer- sity of the City of New York, 1871-72 ; in Bellevue Hospital Medical college, 1873-76, and professor of materia medica and the practice of medicine, 1876-92 ; commissioner of the department of health. New York city, 1875-81 ; and consulting physician to Bellevue, St. Vincent's, Presbyterian, French and St. Elizabeth's hospitals, and visiting physician to Mt. Sinai and Bellevue, Charity and Ward's Island hospitals. He served as president of the New York Medical Journal association ; vice-president of the New York Pathological society, and was elected president of the Asso- ciation of American Physicians at the four- teenth annual meeting held in Washington, D.C., May 4, 1899.

JANEWAY, Jacob Jones, theologian, was born in New York city, Nov. 20, 1774. He was graduated at Columbia college, A. B., 1794, A.M., 1797 ; studied theology with Dr. John H. Living- ston at New York city, and at Flatlnisli, L.I. ; was associate minister at the Second Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, Pa., 1799-1828; modera- tor of the general assembly, 1818 ; professor of theology in the Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 1828-29; pastor of the First Reformed Dutch church, New Brunswick, N.J., 1829-31 ; vice-president and professor of belles- lettres, evidences of Christianity and political economy, Rutgers college, New Brunswick. N.J., 1833-.39 ; a director of Princeton Theological seminary, 1813-30 and 1840-58 ; second vice-