Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Janney, Stephen M.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Middletown Township


   STEPHEN M. JANNEY farmer, P.O. Oakford, was born in Bucks 
county April 22, 1837, and is a son of William and Rebecca 
(Smith) Janney.  His parents were natives of Pennsylvania 
and of English descent.  The family settled early in Bucks 
county and have generally been tillers of the soil and 
active business men.  The early members of the family were 
of the Society of Friends.  Our subject's father was a 
farmer.  He had nine children.  Stephen M. was reared on the 
farm in Bucks county and attended school at Newtown.  He 
followed farming as a business until 1874, when he bought 
his present property.  His farm consists of one hundred and 
seven acres.  There is a very valuable stone quarry on it 
which Mr. Janney has opened.  He rents the mill pond to an 
ice company of Philadelphia, who have eight large ice houses 
there.  He was married in 1871 to Mary E. Nicholson, 
daughter of Hon. Edward Nicholson, and of Irish descent.  
They have one child, Florence R.   Mrs. Janney died in 1877. 
 She was a member of the Episcopal church.  Mr. Janney 
enlisted in 1861 in the 122nd regiment, Pa. Vols., in 
company E.  He was a non-commissioned officer, and served 
ten months.  In politics he is a republican.  Mrs. Janney's 
father, Hon. Edward Nicholson, served as a democratic member 
of the state legislature from Bucks county.