Sumner County Biographies
"Portrait and Biographical Album of Sumner County"
Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1890
HON. DANIEL F. JANEWAY, M. D. In
person of the subject of this notice we
have that of a leading physician and surgeon of Argonia,a gentleman well-educated,
intelligent, and thoroughly understanding the duties of his profession. In the fall of 1888 he was
elected on the Republican ticket as a Representative to the Kansas Legislature from the Eighty-fifth
District, holding until 1891. He is entirely
in sympathy with the principles of his party, and a
liberal and public spirited citizen, serving as Secretary of the school board, and otherwise identifying
himself with the best interests of his community.
In Masonic circles he belongs to Chikaskia Lodge
No. 285, in which he is Master, and he is also a
member of Argonia Lodge, No. 272, I. O. O. F., in
which he is Past Grand, and has been a Representative to the Grand Lodge. He is a member of the
Southwestern Kansas Medical Association, and by
virtue of his powers as Representative, served on
the committee of Public Health in cities of third-class, and Manufactures.
The Doctor was born January 6, 1854, in Jefferson County, Tenn., and was the ninth in a family
of twelve children, the offspring of Charles and
Susannah (Hammer) Janeway, also natives of that
State. Nine of their children are still living. The
parents were married in Tennessee, December 24,
1836, and emigrated to Iowa in 1858, settling in
Jasper County, where they now reside. The father
is seventy-five years old, and the mother seventy-four. They celebrated their golden wedding in
1886.
The early education of Dr. Janeway was conducted in the district schools of Iowa, and later he
attended Hazel Dell Academy at Newton, where he
prepared for college. He entered the Freshman class
at Penn College, Oskaloosa, from which he was
graduated June, 1879, in the regular classical course,
receiving the degree of A. B. For two years afterward he held the position of principal of public
schools at Kellogg, and later was similarly occupied at Cottonwood Falls, this State. In the mean
time he employed his leisure hours in the reading
of medicine. In July, 1882, repairing to Kansas
City, he entered the medical college there from
which he was graduated March 4, 1884. He opened
his first office in Argonia, Sumner County, where
he has since resided and built up a fine practice.
Dr. Janeway contracted matrimonial ties July
28, 1881, with Miss Ada V. Moore. Mrs. Janeway
is a native of Indiana, was the eldest child of her
parents, Morris and Rebecca (Beals) Moore, and
was born October 26, 1858. Her father was a native of North Carolina, and her mother of Tennessee. They came to this State at a very early day,
settling in Chase County, where the father prosecuted farming successfully, and died in 1871. The
mother was remarried to Z. W. Morgan, and is now
living in Chase County. Of her first union there
was born six children, five of whom are now living. Mrs. Janeway acquired an excellent education, completing her studies in the Normal School
at Emporia. Subsequently she was employed as a
teacher, some of the time in the schools of Argonia.
With one exception, all her brothers and sisters are
occupied in the same manner. Her sister, Belle, is
a primary teacher in the First Ward at Wellington, Kan.
To the Doctor and his estimable lady there have
been born three children: George M., May 25,
1882; Susan Lucille, October 24, 1885, and Rosa
Lenore, June 27, 1888. Doctor and Mrs. Janeway
are members of the Friends' Church. They occupy
a neat home in the northern part of the city, and
number their friends and acquaintances among its
most cultured people.
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