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pamphlets. His memoirs, written by himself, '• as a legacy to his children and to i)romote the cause of truth," was published by his daugliter, Cornelia, in 1881. He died in Lincoln, Loudoun county, Va., April 30, 1880.

JANSEN, Reinier, printer, was born in Hol- land. He was a niember of the Society of Friends, and learned the trade of printing and also that of lace making at Alkmaar. He immigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1698. The Society of Friends had sent over in the same sliip a printing press, of which he took charge, and first printed legal forms of deeds and bonds and a primer. He also printed an almanac, prepared by Jacob Taylor, but the principal use of the press was in printing the i^ublications of the Society of Friends, including " An Epistle to Friends," by Gertrude Dereek Niesen; "The Dying Words of William Fletcher," and "Gods Providence, etc., etc.," all printed in 1699; " To Friends in Ireland and Elsewhere, etc.," by Thomas Upsher (1700); and "A Brief Testimony against Backbiters," bj' William Shewen, and " Gospel Family Order, etc.," by George Fox, all in 1701. He is supposed to have left two sons, also printers, one adopting the name of Tiberius Johnson and the other Joseph Reyniers. He continued to be printer for the Society of Friends up to the time of his death in Philadelphia, Pa., about the close of 1705.

JANSSEN, John, R.C. bishop, was born in Keppeln, diocese of Miinster, Prussia, March 3, 1835. He was educated for the priesthood, but before he finished his theological studies was induced bj- Bishop Juncker, of Alton, 111., to remove to the United States, and he finished his course in theology and was ordained by Bislio}} Juncker in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Nov. 19, 1858. He was given missionary work in the diocese of Springfield, and served as secre- tary and assistant in parochial work to Bishop Juncker in the diocese of Alton. On the death of the bishop, Oct. 2, 1868, he was given charge of the affairs of the diocese, which he retained until the consecration of Bishop Baltes, Jan. 23, 1870. He was then made vicar-general and served until Feb. 28, 1888, when lie was appointed as administrator of the diocese of Alton after the death of Bishop Baltes, Feb. 15, 1886, until the consecration of Bishop Ryan, May 1, 1888. He was ap[)ointed bishop of the newly-erected diocese of Belleville, Feb. 28, 1888, and he was conse- crated in St. Peter's cathedral, Belleville, 111., April 25, 1888, by Archbishop Feehan, assisted b}' Bishop Hogan, of Kansas City, and Bishop Fink, of Leavenworth. In 1900 his diocese con- tained seventy-five churches and a Catholic popu- lation of 50.000. In November, 1902, he resigned to enter a monastery.

JANSSENS, Francis, R.C. archbishop, was born in Tilhurg, Ncjrth Brabant, Holland, Oct. 17, 1843. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at Ghent, Belgium, Dec. 22, 1862, by Mgr. Henry Francis Bracq. bishop of the see. He immigrated to America in 1868, and was at first stationed at Richmond, Va., where he was assistant at the Cathedral of St. Peter; rector, secretary and chancellor of the diocese, 1870-77; vicar-general in 1877; administrator of the diocese from Oct. 3, 1873, till Aug. 25, 1878, and vicar-general again from Aug. 25, 1878, till May, 1881. He was con- secrated bishop of Natchez, Miss., May 1, 1881, at Richmond, Va., by Archbishop Gibbons, assisted bj' Bishops Becker and Kain, the sermon being preached by Archbishop Elder, and was trans- lated to New Orleans as archbislnjp, Aug. 7, 1888. He was supreme spiritual director of the Catholic Knights of the United States. He died on the steamer Creole, between New Orleans and New York, on liis waj' to visit Holland, June 10, 1807.

JANVIER, Thomas Allibone, author, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., July 10, 1849: son of Francis de Haes and Emma (Newbold) Janvier; grandson of Francis de Haes and Margaret (Thompson) Janvier and of William Newbold; and descended through Thomas Janvier (a Huguenot refugee. 1683) and Sarah, daughter of William Cross, of New Castle, Del., from a family seated in the west of Fi-ance. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and en- tered a business career, which he aliandoned in 1871 and engaged in editorial work on the Philadeli)hia Press, Bulletin and Times until 1881, when he devoted himself to litei'ary work. He became a member of the Century association, New York, of the Folk-Lore society, London, and an honorary member of the Provencal Society of the Felibrige, France. His wife, Catharine A. Janvier, acquired a reputation as a translator, especially of the following works by Felix Gras: Tlie Beds of the Midi (1896); The Tfrro?- (1898); Tlie White Terror (1899). The Beds of the Midi was the fii'st example of Provencal literature to have a first publication in America. His sister, Margaret Thomson Janvier, born in Louisiana in 1845, also became known as an author, writing juvenile stories under the pen name, " Margaret Vandergrift." Her lx)oks include: Under the Dog Star, Clover Bank, Little Helpers. A Dead Doll, and Other Verses. Mr. Janvier is the author of: Color Studies (1885); The Mexican Guide {\mQ\etseq.); The Aztec Treasure House (\mO); Stories of Old Xeiv Spain (ISdl); The Uncle of an Angel, and Other Stories (1891); An Embassy to Provence (1893); In Old New York (1894); In the Sargasso Sea (lSOf<): The Passing of Thomas, and Other Stories (1900), and an introduction to Mrs. Janvier's translation of The Beds of the Midi ( 1 896).