Joshua Neal Janvrin Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: JANVRIN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 987

     JOSHUA NEAL JANVRIN, proprietor of a large store in the town 
of Seabrook, where he is doing a successful business in groceries, grain 
and feed, was born in this town March I, 1874, a son of Joshua and 
Lydia J. Janvrin. He is a descendant of John Janvrin, of French origin,
who came to Portsmouth, N. H., from the island of Jersey, in the Eng-
lish Channel, in 1696. This early ancestor had a son John, born in Ports- 
mouth, July 8, 1707, who graduated at Harvard College in 1728, and 
who died October 7, 1780. The second John Janvrin had four sons:
John, born 1754, died November, 1837; George, born 1762, died Sep-
tember, 1841; William, born 1769; died February 5, 1837; and James, :
born 1758 who died March 6,1822. Of the above mentioned sons, John 
was the father of Joshua N. Janvrin, born May 6, 1776, who was lost at
sea in January, 1817, and who was the grandfather of the subject of
this sketch.
     Joshua Janvrin, son of Joshua N., and father of our subject, was born
in Seabrook, N. H., in .1802, and died August 24, 1882. He was three
times married; first to Mary, daughter of Jonathan Fifield, of Hampton
Falls. Of this union there were six children, namely: George, born in
1825, who died July 23, 1856; Sarah, born in 1828, died in 1848; Susan,
born 1830, died 1854; Emery, born July 7, 1833; Joseph, born September
3. 1835. and Harrison, born 1840, died July 16, 1862.
     Joshua Janvrin married for his second wife, Clarissa Fifield, a sister
of his first wife. They had two children: John Filmore, who died April
12, 1901, at the age of fifty-two years, and Mary, who died in 1873, at the
age of thirty. For his third wife, Joshua Janvrin married Lydia J. C.
(Beckman) Blake, their only child being Joshua Nea1, whose name ap-
pears at the head of this record.
     Joshua Neal Janvrin was educated in the public schools of Seabrook
and of Boston, Mass. In 1897 he engaged in mercantile business at Sea-
brook, two years later building his present large store, where he is now
carrying on a successful business as above described. He is a member
of the order of Odd Fellows, including the Grand Lodge, and was deputy
of the Grand Encampment; he also belongs to Star of the East Lodge,
A. F. & A. M. In 1907 he married Miss Esther M. Chase, daughter of
Judge Jeremiah Chase of Seabrook. He and his wife are the parents of
a daughter, Dorothy Leavitt, born May 10, 1914.

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