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 JANEWAY

JANNEY

president of the board of directors, 1821-25 ; first vice-president, 1825-30, and president, 1849-58 ; and a trustee, 1822-30. After 1839, when he returned to the Presbyterian church, he engaged in general missionary work and in the direction of Presbyterian education. With Dr. Jonathan Cogswell and John R. Ford he defrayed the cost of erecting the Second Presbyterian church and parsonage at New Brunswick. He was married to Martha Gray Leiper before 1805. He received the degree of S.T.D. His published works in- clude : The Abrahaviic Covenant (1812) Inter- nal Evidence of the Bible; Unhnrful .Marriage (1844) ; Antidote to Dr. Schaff's Pithlieations{i8rA); Tlie Apostolie Age (3 vols., 18G6). He died at New Brunswick, N.J., June 27, 1858.

JANEWAY, Thomas Leiper, clergyman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 27, 1805; son of the Rev. Dr. Jacob Jones and Martha Gray (Leiper) Janeway. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1820 and was graduated vale- dictorian with the class of 1823. He was gradu- ated at Princeton Theological seminary, 1827 ; was tutor at Allegheny seminary, 1828 ; pastor at Rahway, N.J., 1829-40 ; of the North church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1840-54, and at Kingston, N.J., 1855-61 ; corresponding secretary of the Presby- terian board of domestic missions, 1861-68, and then retired from active work, preaching occa- sionally as supply. He was a trustee of Lafayette college, Pa., 1847-52 ; declined the presidency of Jefferson college in 1857 ; was trustee of Princeton Theological seminary, 1861-65, and secretary of the board, 1861-63 ; a director of the seminar}-, 1849-67, and secretary of the board of directors, 1860-64. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1850, and that of LL.D. elsewhere. He was married to Abby Blackwood, daughter of Joshua Ladd Howell, of Woodbury, N.J., and their sons were: Col. John H. Janeway, U.S.A., and Dr. Joshua Blackwood Howell Janeway. He is the author of : Memoir of Rev. Jacob J. Janetvay (1861). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 14, 1895.

JANNEY, Samuel flcPherson, author, was born in Loudoun county, Va., Jan. 11, 1801 ; son of Abijah and Jane (McPherson) Janney ; grandson of Israel and Pleasant (Hague) Janney and of John and Hannah McPherson, and a descendant of Thomas Janney, of Cheshire, England, wlio came to Pennsylvania in 1683, settled in Bucks county, was a member of the governor's covmcil and a celebrated itinerant preacher among the Society of Friends. Samuel was sent to school at Alexandria, Va., and in 1815 was employed in the counting house of his uncle, Phineas Janney, a commission merchant of Alexandria. Meanwhile, by private study and attendance at a night school, he gained a

knowledge of the French language, and also of surveying. He formed a class in natural philos- ophy and chemistry among his young friends, to increase his scientific knowledge, but his strong- est predilection was for literature. He early began to write es- says for publication, which were well re- ceived. His poem, " The Country School House," in 1824, won a prize offered by the New York Mirror, and George P. Mor- ris, the editor, asked for more contribu- tions. He was mar- ried, March 9, 1826, to Elizabeth, daugh- ter of John and Elizabeth Janney. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and in 1832 became a minister in the Hicksite branch of that society. He removed to Occoquan in 1830, where, with his brother-in-law, he had erected a cotton factory. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls at Lincoln, Loudoun county, Va., which was much more congenial to his taste. This school he taught for fifteen years, and during that time emploj-ed his spare moments in literary work. He was an earnest advocate of the abolition of slavery and wrote pamphlets and many newspaper articles on that subject. At one time he was indicted by the grand jury of his county for publishing a reply to a lecture delivered by a Virginia clergyman which was intended to sustain the system of slavery upon biblical grounds, but he pleaded his own cause and was acquitted. He at once published his answer to the presentment, under the title of "The Freedom of the Press Vindicated." He was made superintendent of Indian affairs for the state of Nebraska by President Grant in 1869, and as such he visited the several agencies many times and did much to promote the civilization of the Indians. He resigned his supei'intendency, Sept. 30, 1871, as the labor connected with it was too great for his frail health. He was a minister in the Society of Friends forty-eight years, and during that time made many long journeys to proclaim the spiritual truths he loved so well. He is the author of : Conversations on Religious Subjects (1835); Janney' s Poems (1839); Teachers' Gift (1840); The Christian Church During the Middle Ages (1847); Life of William Penn (1851) ; Life of George Ford (1853); Histor'y of the Relig- ious Society of Friends (4 vols., 1860-67); Peace Principles Exemplified (1876), and numerous