Bio of JANNEY, Thomas B. (b.1838), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 547-548
THOMAS B. JANNEY
Thomas B. Janney was born on the 5th of October, 1838, in Shanesville,
Tuscarawas county, Ohio, his parents being Phineas M. and Frances (Smith)
Janney. He was only a year old, however, when his parents established their home
in Van Buren county, Iowa, where they remained for twelve years, and during that
period he began his education in the district schools of the neighborhood and
also attended an academy at Henry, Illinois.
Mr. Janney started out in the business world as a clerk in a general store and
in 1866, when a young man of about twenty-eight years, he arrived in
Minneapolis, joining his brother, Edwin, and his brother-in-law, S. T. Moles, in
the retail hardware business. It was nine years after arriving in Minneapolis
that Thomas B. Janney, in 1875, became one of the organizers of the firm of
Janney, Brooks & Eastman. They purchased the hardware store that had been
established by Governor John S. Pillsbury in 1855. In 1883 Mr. Brooks died and
about that time Mr. Eastman retired from the firm. Mr. Janney, however,
continued at the head of the business, which was then reorganized under the name
of Janney & Semple, which in time became Janney, Semple, Hill & Company, being
thus incorpo­rated in the year 1898. With the gradual growth of the business it
became the largest wholesale hardware establishment in the Northwest and is
still unrivaled in the entire country.
In 1869 Mr. Janney was married to Miss Mary E. Wheaton of this city and they
became the parents of two daughters: Frances and Helen, the latter the wife of
Charles M. Case.
Mr. Janney was among those who founded and conducted the old Minneapolis
Exposition about a third of a century ago. He is a director of the Northwestern
National Bank, president of the Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank, and a director
of the Equitable Loan Association. He belongs to the Minneapolis Civic &
Commerce Association, the Minneapolis, Commercial, Minikahda and Lafayette
Clubs, and is a member of the Presbyterian church.