Washington, D.C., Public Schools Educator and Union Civil War Infantry Captain. Janney Elementary School, opened in 1925 in the Tenleytown district of Washington, D.C., is named after him.
He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia to Quaker (Society of Friends) parents. He had a sister, Cornelia G. (Nichols) (1838-1893). When the Civil War erupted his sympathies were with the Union, rather than the Confederacy as with the rest of his family. He joined the 197th Pennsylvania Infantry and was commissioned a captain. Raised in Philadelphia in mid-1864, the regiment was made up of Hundred Days Men in an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days, and spent most of its service guarding Confederate prisoners of war at Rock Island.
Following the war, he became an Indian agent and lived for a few years among native American tribes in the Dakota Territory. In 1867, he married Isabella "Bella" Skillman, which whom he had a daughter. She died in November 1870. Returning to the Washington, D.C. area, Janney became a secondary school teacher in the Brightwood school district near Washington. He became a principal in the Georgetown all male school and when that district merged in 1874 with the three other separate local districts- for Washington; the county; and black students, Janney became principal of the two Tenleytown schools, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1874 he married Laura Ann Browne, the New Hampshire-born daughter of a former president of Philips-Exeter Academy, an exclusive New England prep school. They had a daughter and son. Janney was a member of the G.A.R. the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and other charitable and civic organizations. He unexpectedly died of a stroke at age 72, survived by his second wife and children.
Janney School (later an elementary school) was dedicated to him when it opened in 1925 on Albemarle St., less than a block off Wisconsin Ave. in NW Washington, D.C.
He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia to Quaker (Society of Friends) parents. He had a sister, Cornelia G. (Nichols) (1838-1893). When the Civil War erupted his sympathies were with the Union, rather than the Confederacy as with the rest of his family. He joined the 197th Pennsylvania Infantry and was commissioned a captain. Raised in Philadelphia in mid-1864, the regiment was made up of Hundred Days Men in an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days, and spent most of its service guarding Confederate prisoners of war at Rock Island.
Following the war, he became an Indian agent and lived for a few years among native American tribes in the Dakota Territory. In 1867, he married Isabella "Bella" Skillman, which whom he had a daughter. She died in November 1870. Returning to the Washington, D.C. area, Janney became a secondary school teacher in the Brightwood school district near Washington. He became a principal in the Georgetown all male school and when that district merged in 1874 with the three other separate local districts- for Washington; the county; and black students, Janney became principal of the two Tenleytown schools, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1874 he married Laura Ann Browne, the New Hampshire-born daughter of a former president of Philips-Exeter Academy, an exclusive New England prep school. They had a daughter and son. Janney was a member of the G.A.R. the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and other charitable and civic organizations. He unexpectedly died of a stroke at age 72, survived by his second wife and children.
Janney School (later an elementary school) was dedicated to him when it opened in 1925 on Albemarle St., less than a block off Wisconsin Ave. in NW Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., Public Schools Educator and Union Civil War Infantry Captain. Janney Elementary School, opened in 1925 in the Tenleytown district of Washington, D.C., is named after him.
He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia to Quaker (Society of Friends) parents. He had a sister, Cornelia G. (Nichols) (1838-1893). When the Civil War erupted his sympathies were with the Union, rather than the Confederacy as with the rest of his family. He joined the 197th Pennsylvania Infantry and was commissioned a captain. Raised in Philadelphia in mid-1864, the regiment was made up of Hundred Days Men in an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days, and spent most of its service guarding Confederate prisoners of war at Rock Island.
Following the war, he became an Indian agent and lived for a few years among native American tribes in the Dakota Territory. In 1867, he married Isabella "Bella" Skillman, which whom he had a daughter. She died in November 1870. Returning to the Washington, D.C. area, Janney became a secondary school teacher in the Brightwood school district near Washington. He became a principal in the Georgetown all male school and when that district merged in 1874 with the three other separate local districts- for Washington; the county; and black students, Janney became principal of the two Tenleytown schools, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1874 he married Laura Ann Browne, the New Hampshire-born daughter of a former president of Philips-Exeter Academy, an exclusive New England prep school. They had a daughter and son. Janney was a member of the G.A.R. the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and other charitable and civic organizations. He unexpectedly died of a stroke at age 72, survived by his second wife and children.
Janney School (later an elementary school) was dedicated to him when it opened in 1925 on Albemarle St., less than a block off Wisconsin Ave. in NW Washington, D.C.
He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia to Quaker (Society of Friends) parents. He had a sister, Cornelia G. (Nichols) (1838-1893). When the Civil War erupted his sympathies were with the Union, rather than the Confederacy as with the rest of his family. He joined the 197th Pennsylvania Infantry and was commissioned a captain. Raised in Philadelphia in mid-1864, the regiment was made up of Hundred Days Men in an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days, and spent most of its service guarding Confederate prisoners of war at Rock Island.
Following the war, he became an Indian agent and lived for a few years among native American tribes in the Dakota Territory. In 1867, he married Isabella "Bella" Skillman, which whom he had a daughter. She died in November 1870. Returning to the Washington, D.C. area, Janney became a secondary school teacher in the Brightwood school district near Washington. He became a principal in the Georgetown all male school and when that district merged in 1874 with the three other separate local districts- for Washington; the county; and black students, Janney became principal of the two Tenleytown schools, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1874 he married Laura Ann Browne, the New Hampshire-born daughter of a former president of Philips-Exeter Academy, an exclusive New England prep school. They had a daughter and son. Janney was a member of the G.A.R. the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and other charitable and civic organizations. He unexpectedly died of a stroke at age 72, survived by his second wife and children.
Janney School (later an elementary school) was dedicated to him when it opened in 1925 on Albemarle St., less than a block off Wisconsin Ave. in NW Washington, D.C.
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