JAMISON
JANES
9, 1837, and transferred to the receiving-ghip
Baltimore. He was promoted captain, June 4,
1844 ; commanded the frigate Cumberland, home
squadron, 1847-48 ; commanded the razee Inde-
pendence, Mediterranean squadron, 1851-53 ; was
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placed on the reserved list, Sept. 13, 1855, and was promoted commodore, July 16, 1862. He favored the preservation of the Union, and dur- ing the civil war he was invalided, residing at Alexandria, Va. He was retired, April 4, 1867, and died at Alexandria, Va., Oct. 6, 1873.
JAHISON, Cecelia Viets (Dakin), author, was born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1848 ; daughter of Viets and Elizabeth (Bruce) Dakin ; granddaughter of John and Sarah (Lewis) Bruce and of Jacob and Mary (Viets) Dakin and great- granddaughter of the Rev. Roger Viets, rector of St. Andrews, Granby, Conn., before the Revolu- tion. The Lewis, Viets and Bruce families were residents of Nova Scotia and Tories in the Amer- ican Revolution. She was educated in private schools in America and Europe, and after 1870 devoted herself to literature. She was married, Oct. 28, 1878, to Samuel Jamison, of New Orleans, La. She is the author of : Woven of Many Threads (1872) ; Croivn from the Spear (1874) ; Ropes of Sand (1876) ; Lillij of San Miniato (1878) ; Story of an Enthusiast (1888) ; Lady Jane (1891) ; Toinette's Philip (1893) ; Seraph, the Little Violinist (1895) ; also short stories in Harper's, St. Nicholas and other magazines.
JANES, Edmund Storer, M.E. bishop, was born in Sheffield, Mass., April 27, 1807 ; son of Benjamin and Sally (Wood) Janes ; grandson of Thomas Janes, a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and a descendant of William Janes, of Essex, England, who came to America with the John Davenport colony in 1637 ; settled in New Haven the same year, and in 1656 removed to Northampton, Mass., where he died, Sept. 20, 1690. His father was a carpenter and farmer, and removed to Salisbury, Conn., when Edmund was quite young, and he was educated in the district school. WJien seventeen years old he taught school at Ancram Furnace, Livingston
Manor, N.Y., and continued as a district school
teacher, 1824-29, at the same time studying both
law and theolog}'. In 1830 he was reconnnended
to the Philadelijhia conference for the regular
ministry in the Methodist Episcopal church, and
he was received on
trial. He first serv-
ed at Elizabethtown,
N.J., 1826-27 and also
1831-32, and after-
ward at Bloomfield
and Orange. He was
financial agent of
Dickinson college,
1834-40. He was mar-
ried in May, 1835,
to Charlotte Thibou,
of New York city.
He was in charge of
Fifth Street church,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
1835-37, during which
time he took a course in medicine ; of the
church at Nazareth, Pa., 1837-39 ; Mulberry
Street church. New York city, 1839-40, and
financial secretary of the American Bible society,
1840-44. On June 7, 1844, he was elected bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was
con.secrated, June 10, and presided first over the
New England and then the Kentvicky confer-
ence in 1844 ; the Maine conference in 1845, and
the Troy, Black River and Genesee conferences
in New York in 1846 ; also the Michigan confer-
ence and in the northwest, 1846-47, followed by
general conference work as far west as the limits
of the continent and south to the gulf. He made
his home in New York city and established a sum-
mer home at Mount Wesley, near Morristown, N.J.
He visited Europe, 1861, and attended tlie Ger-
man mission conference and the Wesleyan con-
ference in England. He was a delegate to the
British and Foreign Bible society and to the
French, English and Irish Wesleyan conferences
in 1865, and while in Berlin preached a discourse
on the death of President Lincoln which was
printed and largely read through Germany and
northern Europe, favorably directing public senti-
ment at a critical period in the historj^ of the
American republic. He attended the South Car-
olina conference at Camden, Feb. 11-13, 1869, and
the New Orleans and Texas conferences in De-
cember, 1871. His advancing yeai's compelled a
restriction of his travel in 1875, and he was given
charge of the conferences of Delaware and Wil-
mington, but went west as far as Indianapolis
in September. The protracted illness of his wife,
1875-76, confined his labors to the neighborhood
of New York city, and his last conference was
Delaware, held in Philadelphia, Pa., July 20-24,
