physical condition. While there, he had a saw- mill and flouring-mill erected, lands were allotted to the Indians in severalty, and about 100 log- houses built. His wife and daughters also labored among the women of the tribe. Owing to impaired health, he resigned his commission and returned to Virginia. He was a member of the Society of Friends, in which he held the office of elder.
JANNEY, Thomas, Quaker, b. in Cheshire,
England, in 1634; d. there, 12 Dec, 1696. He set-
tled in Bucks county, Pa., in 1683, and also labored
in New Jersey. He visited the churches of New
England, Long Island, and Maryland, and finally
went to England with Griffith Owen in 1695.
JANNSENS, Francis, R. C. bishop, b. in Til-
burg, North Brabant, Holland, 17 Oct., 1847. He
studied theology in the Episcopal seminary of Bois-
le-Duc, and afterward entered the American college
of the University of Louvain, with a view to becom-
ing a missionary in the United States. He was or-
dained priest. 21 Dec, 1867, sailed for this country
in September, 1868, and was assigned to mission-
ary duty in Richmond, Va. He was first assistant
at the cathedral, and in 1870 was appointed rector,
secretary, and chancellor of the diocese, at the
same time taking charge of several missions. In
1877 he became vicar-general. On the translation
of Bishop Gibbons to Baltimore as coadjutor-arch-
bishop, Father Jannsens was appointed admin-
istrator of the diocese of Richmond. He filled the
same office under Bishop Keane that he had occu-
pied under his predecessor. After the translation
of Bishop Elder from the diocese of Natchez to the
coadjutorship of Cincinnati, Father Jannsens was
nominated for the vacant see, and he was con-
secrated by Archbishop Gibbons in the cathedral of
Richmond, 1 May, 1881. Before assuming the du-
ties of his office he visited Rome. Bishop Jannsens
is supreme spiritual director of the Catholic knights
of the United States, a benevolent organization of
large membership. In 1884 there were 14,000
Roman Catholics under his jurisdiction, with fifty-
three churches and thirty priests.
JANSEN, Olaüs, Danish naturalist, b. in Christianstadt in 1714; d. in Copenhagen in 1778. He studied in Germany, and was for several years professor at the University of Tübingen, where he acquired reputation as a naturalist. He was elected in 1761 rector of the University of Copenhagen, and in the following year a member of the Academy of sciences. Two years later he was sent by the government to travel in America and collect information on the natural productions of that country. He landed in Buenos Ayres in October, 1764, and visited successively Paraguay, Uruguay, Chili, Patagonia, Araucania, Brazil, Peru, Central America, thence, crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he journeyed through New Spain, Louisiana, and Florida, reaching Boston in 1772. On his return, which was hastened by difficulties in which he was involved with the English authorities when he was
about to visit Canada, he published "Den Geist in den Naturvidenskaben og naturens almindelige laere" (Copenhagen, 1773); "Journal holden y Skibet prindsess Isabella poa rejsen til Buenos Ayres" (2 vols., 1773-'4); "Forste indledning til den Almind. naturlaere" (1774); "Neue Reisen durch Brazil und Peru" (1775); "Neue Reisen durch Louisiana und Nueva España" (1776); "Geschichte und Beschreibung des Brodbaums" (Tübingen and Copenhagen, 1776); "Anmarkningar ons Historia Naturalis och climated af Nye England og Nye Spanien" (2 vols., Copenhagen and Stockholm, 1778); and several other works, which enjoyed a high reputation during the 18th century.
JANSEN, Reynier, printer, b. in Holland ; d.
in Philadelphia in March, 1706. He emigrated to
this country in 1698. He was a lace-maker at Alk-
maier, Holland, but, shortly after coming to Phila-
delphia, he set up a printing-press — the second in
the middle colonies. From 1698 till 1706 he was
the only printer in Pennsylvania. Probably the
first book issued by him was "God's Protecting
Providence " (1699). Thomas, in " History of Print-
ing in America," says : " I have met with only one
book with Jansen's name in the imprint," while
Hildeburn, in " Issues of Pennsylvania Press, 1685-
1784" (1885), enumerates thirty-five different publi-
cations bearing Jansen's imprint. The issues of
Jansen's press have sold higher on the average as
imprints than the issues of any other American
printer. His two sons earned on the printing-
business a few years after their father's death. One
of the sons assumed the name of Tiberius John-
son, and the other that of Joseph Reynier, and
respectively printed in these names.
JANSEN VAN ILPENDAM, Jan, Dutch official, d. probably at Marcus Hook, Pa., in 1685. About 1640 he was appointed by Gov. William Kieft custom-house officer on the Delaware, and put in command of Fort Nassau. In 1642 a company
from New Haven attempted to effect a settlement
nearly opposite the fort, to prevent which Jansen
was ordered by the Dutch governor to proceed to
the unbidden comers and require of them to show
by what " authority they acted, and how they dared
to make such encroachment on our rights and
privileges, our territory and commerce ; and, if
they could show no authority, to let them depart,
and, if they refused, to take them prisoners and
bring them to New York " ; and to aid him in en-
forcing his authority he was sent two yachts, and
directed to man them. This order he obeyed, and
it resulted in his burning the trading-house and
taking the traders prisoners, whereat the govern-
ment of New Haven addressed to Kieft a vigor-
ous protest. In 1644 he refused to allow a Boston
company to pass up the river on the ostensible mis-
sion of exploring for the Syconian lake. In 1645
he fell into disfavor, and was charged with fraud
and neglect of duty in his office as commissary of
the fort, one item of his offending being that he
had given " more to the Indians than the ordinary
rate." He was removed, and Andreas Hudde ap-
pointed to succeed him. He continued to reside
on the river and to trade with the Indians, and is
frequently named in historical documents.
JANSON, Kristofer, clergyman, b. in Bergen, Norway, 5 May, 1841. After finishing the theological course in the University of Christiania, he founded, with a friend, Kristofer Bruun, a People's high-school in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, with the view of raising the intellectual level of the peasants. While at home he was a leader of the movement (the "Maalstraev"), which has in view the replacing of the Danish language, which is the Norwegian language of literature, by the truly Norwegian language, which is still spoken among the peasants of Norway. Janson has written a large series of novels in this language, the most important of which are "Han ok Ho" (Christiania, 1867), and "Marit Skjolte" (1869). The Norwegian storthing, in acknowledgment of Janson's merits, allowed him what is called a poet's salary, a compensation that has been given to only three others of the most eminent Norwegian authors. In 1882 Janson settled in this country as minister of a Unitarian parish in Minneapolis, Minn. He has since then preached both in English and Norwegian, and he seeks to spread religious tolerance
