Alexandria City-Loudoun-Prince William County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Janney, Samuel M 1875 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Alice Warner Brosey http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 December 13, 2010, 2:37 pm Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler Samuel M. Janney. The Janneys of Virginia descend from Thomas Janney, of Styall, England, and Bucks county, Pennsylvania, born in England, 1632, died in Cheshire, England, February 12, 1697. He was a member of the Society of Friends and came to Pennsylvania with wife, Margaret, four sons and two servants in the "Endeavor," arriving in the Delaware in 1683. He was a member of the provincial council, 1684, 1685 and 1686, and again in 1691, and one of the justices of peace for Bucks county. He was a member of the Falls monthly meeting, being first of record in Bucks county, 12 mo. 6, 1683. He was a member of Philadelphia quarterly meeting, from them obtaining permission to visit England. He made his will and in 1695 returned to England, where he engaged in the work of the ministry until his death. He left children: Jacob, married and left issue; Thomas, Abel and Joseph; two children died young. From these sprang a numerous family, mostly located in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Ohio, many of them noted men. Among these may be mentioned: Thomas Janney, a lieutenant in the Continental army; Phineas Janney, the wine merchant of Alexandria, and friend of Henry Clay; his nephew, Samuel McPherson Janney, the Quaker author, historian and preacher; John Janney, who, as president of the Virginia convention, used his best endeavors to hold his state in the Union, and as delegate to the Whig convention at Harrisburg advocated the nomination of Henry Clay for the presidency; Johns Hopkins, the founder of the university and hospital bearing his name at Baltimore; Emerson Hough, author and magazine writer; Bellamy Storer, diplomat, and Israel Gregg. captain of Fulton's first steamboat, the "Clermont." The line of descent to Samuel M. Janney, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, is through Joseph, the youngest son, whose son Jacob settled in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1745, an elder of the Society of Friends. A descendant, John Janney, grandfather of Samuel M., was a merchant of Alexandria, where he died. He married Marguerite Tyson, of Baltimore, a descendant of the Tyson family, early settlers of Germantown, Pennsylvania; her mother a Hopkins, of the celebrated Baltimore family. Their only child was Joseph Tyson, of whom further. Joseph Tyson Janney was born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1832, died in 1882. He was a merchant of Alexandria for many years, also owning a farm at Occoquan, Prince William county, Virginia, and there operating a grist mill. He retired to his farm after his years of mercantile life, operating farm and mill until his death. He was a member of the Society of Friends, a man of high character and highly respected. He married Edith Hunter, born in 1842, died February 7, 1913, daughter of Robert Hunter, born in Scotland, a shipbuilder of Alexandria until his death; he married Elizabeth Bryan, of Alexandria, and had a family of twelve children, one of these children, a widow, Mrs. Sophia Hammill, yet survives, living in Occoquan with her niece, Marguerite Janney. Children of Joseph Tyson Janney: Tyson, now proprietor of the old mill in Occoquan, married Meta Gibson; Joseph, deceased; Elizabeth, married Alfred B. Carter and resides in Washington, D. C.; Edith Hunter, married Rev. Simpson V. Hildebrand, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, residing at Culpeper, Virginia; Johns Hopkins, a flour salesman, of Washington, D. C.; Walter H., a physician of Occoquan; Samuel McPherson, of whom further; Marguerite Tyson, residing in Occoquan; Cordelia Waters, married Albert S. Johnson, of Fredericksburg. Samuel McPherson Janney, youngest son of Joseph Tyson and Edith (Hunter) Janney, was born in Occoquan, Prince William county, Virginia, December 3, 1875. He was educated in Friends' School at Lincoln, Loudoun county, then entered William and Mary College, finishing his college courses at Randolph- Macon. He spent his youth and intervals in his school life at the old farm and mill in Occoquan, becoming thoroughly informed on grade quality and value of mill products. At the age of twenty-two years he became traveling salesman for the Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis, remaining with them one year. He then established a wholesale grocery house at Christiansburg, Virginia, continuing there in successful business for eight years. In 1909 he sold his interest there and became a member of the wholesale grocery firm of B. J. Marshall, of Fredericksburg, Virginia; in August, 1910, he became senior partner of the firm Janney, Marshall & Company, the present style and title of the house. The firm is a prosperous one. conducts a large business on the most modern principles, ranking high in the territory they cover. Mr. Janney is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a teacher in the Sunday school and interested in all good works. He married, in Christiansburg, November 22, 1906, Maude Hunter, born there, daughter of Charles William and Lucy (Gardner) Hunter, her father a merchant of Christiansburg, his present home. Children: Edith Hunter Janney; Charlotte Wade Janney. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/cityofalexandria/bios/janney208gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 5.8 Kb