Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Janney, William Smith, M.D.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
 Lower Makefield Township


   WILLIAM SMITH JANNEY M. D. 1535 North Broad street, 
Philadelphia, is a member of the family whose genealogy is 
given under the name of Stephen T. Janney, of Newtown 
township.  He was a son of William Janney, who was born in 
1810 on the old homestead, which has been in possession of 
the family since 1684, and who has been almost all his life 
a farmer in Newtown and Lower Makefield townships, but is 
now living retired in Newtown borough.  His wife, Rebecca, 
is a daughter of William and Sarah Smith, of Solebury 
township, where she was born in 1811.  Her father was a 
descendant of Thomas Smith, who came from York, England, in 
1686, and settled in Wrightstown, this county. They have had 
eight children, of whom seven are now living.  William S. 
was the second child, and was born August 12, 1833, in Lower 
Makefield township.  After leaving the district school he 
attended, the Newtown academy, the Bellevue academy, and 
finished his education as a private pupil of the late Joseph 
Fell, of Buckingham township.  When 17 years old he taught 
school at Brownsburg, and afterward at Lumberville, at the 
same time reading medicine; and attended the lectures at the 
Pennsylvania Medical college at Philadelphia, during the 
winters of 1852, 1853 and 1854, graduating in March, 1854.  
He began the practice of his profession at Tullytown, this 
county, where he remained two years, removing in April, 
1856, to Leavenworth, Kansas, just in time to become 
involved in the noted "border war."  Returning east in the 
fall of the same year, he began practicing in Woodsville, 
Mercer county, N. J., where he stayed until 1870; but during 
that time, in 1862, he went into the army as assistant 
surgeon of the 21st N. J. Volunteers, and was promoted to 
surgeon of the 22nd regiment.  His regiment, during their 
ten months' service, took part in the battles of 
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and he had ample 
opportunity for the use of all his skill.  In 1870 the 
doctor removed to a plantation in Caroline county, Va., 
where he stayed until 1874, when he renewed the practice of 
his profession at Eighth and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, 
removing in 1877 to his present residence, on the southeast 
corner of North Broad and Oxford streets.  In 1880 he was 
elected coroner of the city of Philadelphia by over twenty 
thousand majority.  He has also for the past twelve years 
been one of the surgeons of the Philadelphia hospital, and 
deservedly stands high in his profession.  In November, 
1855, he was married to Sarah Ellen, daughter of Benjamin 
and Mary Beans, of Lower Makefield township, where she was 
born in April, 1835.  They have had four children, two of 
whom, a son and a daughter, died in infancy.  The survivors 
are Marianna, born November 2, 1873, and William, born 
February 18, 1876.  Dr. Janney is a member of Post 2, G. A. 
R., of Philadelphia, and in politics is a republican.