John A. Janvrin Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Betsy Webber - betsy@megalink.net

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

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     JOHN A. JANVRIN, lumber dealer of Hampton, Rockingham County,
N. H., was born at Hampton Falls, this county September 26, 1876, son of
Edwin and Anne (Thompson) Janvrin. The father, Edwin Janvrin, also
a native of Hampton Falls, was engaged in the wholesale and retail lumber
business. He was a prominent man in his locality and was elected on the
republican ticket to the legislature. His wife was from Epping, N. H. They
were members of the Baptist church. Both are now deceased and are buried
at Hampton Falls. Their children were: Charles; Bertram T.; Mary L.,
who married Arthur Wakeman, general secretary of the Children's Aid
Society at Brooklyn, N. Y.; John A., the subject of this sketch, and Edwin
L. By a previous marriage Edwin Janvrin had two sons, Fred and Frank,
who were twins. 
     John A. Janvrin was educated in the common schools and Kimball Union
Academy at Meridan, N. H. He also attended Durham Agricultural School
and later took a commercial course. He then worked for about two years in
the shoe business and for three years subsequently was salesman for a gents
furnishing store in Boston. After this he became associated with his father
in the lumber business and was thus occupied until the latter's death, at which

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time he came to Hampton and started his present business, which is in a
flourishing condition. 
     Mr. Janvrin married Mary Elizabeth Lennon, a native of Boston and
daughter of Thomas Lennon, a blacksmith. He and his wife have one son,
Frank Alfred, and a daughter, Katherine Louise. Mr. Janvrin is a repub-
ican in politics. He belongs to the Elks and to the Junior Order American
Mechanics. He is affiliated religiously with the Baptist church, his wife
being a Catholic.

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