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I'm only a butterfly, Born for an hour To gather the sweet From the fairest flower;
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Life is a day dream, All sunny and bright, Obscured by no cloud Till the coming of night.
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Hide under a daisy In perfect repose.
No thought of the morrow, I live for today, And steal from the flowers Their sweetest bouquet.
Tomorrow, perhaps, The sweet flowers will miss My hovering o'er them With soft, dewy kiss.
Mr. Browne was equally ready with his pencil and could produce sketches of striking quality with a few masterly strokes. Thus he was one of those men who advance the culture of the community where they live and set a high standard of living. His face bespoke his lofty aims and strong mentality, and unselfish ambi- tion, and altruistic love. His eyes shone with the spirit within, and told of the ideal- ism which possessed him through life. They were perhaps his most unusual fea- ture, and they carried the impression that they belonged to a man who lived up to the Golden Rule, who was deeply reverenced and strongly loved.
Mr. Browne married (first) Alice Elizabeth Morton, born September 11, 1838, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Henry J. and Elizabeth Morton, of Philadelphia. Their daughter, Edith Lloyd, married Henry Potts, of Pottstown, who died in November, 1916, leaving her a widow, while Mrs. Browne died February 7, 1907. Mr. Browne married (second), on June 7, 1909, Emily Ada Payne, daughter of Henry Mus- grave and Jane (Budgett) Payne, of England. Emily Ada (Payne) Browne died June 20, 1931.
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WILLIAM PENN was born in London, England, October 16, 1644, son of Sir William Penn, admiral in the English Navy. The son entered Christ Church Col- lege, Oxford University, but there became a follower of George Fox, and was a leader in opposing the introduction of elaborate church ceremonials, and was expelled. His non-conformist views were very obnoxious to his father, who put him into London society, hoping to change his views, but without effect. He joined the Society of Friends, and for this he was disowned by his father. He began to preach and write in advocacy of the doctrines of the Friends and published a pam- phlet which was held to be seditious, and for which he was imprisoned for nine months in the Tower of London. Resuming his residence at Cork, he continued preaching and writing pamphlets. His father died in 1692, and he inherited a large estate, and shortly afterward married Gulielma Maria (Proude) Springet, who died the year of their marriage. He succeeded in procuring from the Duke of York the release of George Fox, who had been long imprisoned. He then made a missionary voyage to Holland and Germany in company with Fox and other prominent Friends, and soon afterward engaged actively in a long cherished project to plant a colony in America.
In 1679 Penn and eleven others bought East Jersey. Later he learned that the English king was indebted to his father's estate to the amount of £ 16,000, and he accepted land in America in liquidation of the debt, the charter being signed March 4, 1681, the tract being called Pennsylvania. With the land he had conferred upon him almost royal rights-to enact laws, appoint judges and other officers. His wis- dom in government and success in colonizing his newly-acquired possessions is one of the most brilliant chapters of American history. He arrived at New Castle, Delaware, November 28, 1682, and at the site of the present Philadelphia a few days later. He made his famous treaty with the Indians, recognizing them as rightful owners of the land, and the fairness of his dealings with them established most friendly relations, and immigrants came in large numbers. When Charles II died in 1685, and was succeeded by James, Duke of York, Penn maintained friendly rela- tions with the new monarch, despite their religious differences ; he obtained freedom of worship for all Friends, and showed his real conceptions of true religious liberty by supporting the king in the abolition of the test rule which prevented Roman Catholics from holding public offices. When James was dethroned, his successor, William of Orange, ordered the arrest of Penn, who was, however, released after an examination in which he averred that he had acted honestly and conscientiously, and that he loved his country and the Protestant religion beyond his life. He was again arrested, but discharged; later he was again taken into custody, imprisoned for several months, proclaimed to be a traitor, and deprived of governmental powers. In 1695 he married Hannah Callowhill, of Bristol, England, and in 1699 brought his family to Philadelphia, the town then numbering about 7,000 souls. In 1701 he again returned to England, and busied himself with his properties in Ireland. These affairs involved him in litigations, and he was imprisoned for debt while attending
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a religious meeting, but was released on a compromise with his opponents, and through payments made on his account by personal friends. Pennsylvania was now in quiet condition, and that Province yielded him a substantial income, which, how- ever, he was not long to enjoy. In 1712, he experienced a paralytic stroke which impaired his memory, and his later years were unsatisfactory. He died in Berkshire, England, July 30, 1718.
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, the noted historical painter, has made the following comments on his picture : "The American Penn" :
In 1699 the ship "Canterbury," Captain Fryers, brought William Penn to his colony for a second time. With him were his second wife, Hannah Callowhill, and his daughter by his first, Laetitia. In January, 1700, they domiciled themselves in what was called the "Governor's House," or as it is better known, "The Slate-Roof House," the finest then in Philadelphia, and this was the city home of Penn during the remainder of his stay in the Province.
Our picture shows the Penn family at the "Slate-Roof House" just before their removal for the summer to the recently finished Manor House at Pennsbury.
The "Slate-Roof House" was built in 1693-it was occupied after Penn by Lord Cornbury, proclaimer of Queen Anne's succession, whose visit to Philadelphia made a great stir; in 1702 Governor Keith and later Governor Hamilton lived here; General Forbes, Braddock's succes- sor also, in 1759. During the British occupation of Philadelphia, Major Bauermeister (Hessian) and Lord Cornwallis were its occupants. It was a singular structure, laid out in the style of a fortification, or with angles salient and reëntering, the kitchen with a giant pile of chimneys and a great fireplace, all within a spacious yard which reached toward the Delaware, with many primeval trees which afforded a most agreeable rus in urbe.
Here we must conceive Penn among his employments, meditations, hopes, anxieties, and fears, while Governor and Proprietary among us. In its chambers he slept, in those parlors he dined and regaled his friends, through those ample gardens he wandered in thought.
Watson, in 1842, writes of it: "Such a house should be rescued from its present forlorn neglect .... to preserve it as long as the city may endure."
Alas ! the march of trade destroyed it in 1867.
Janney
It appears from Shirley's "Noble and Gentle Men of England," Burke's "Landed Gentry," and Blomefield's "History of Norfolk," that the family of Janney (or Jenney) were ."considered to be" a branch of the House of De Gis- neto, De Gisne, or Gyney, of Heverland, Norfolk, though a complete line of descent therefrom is not in all cases given, and none apparently shows a continuous line back to the time of the Conquest, when the first of the family is supposed to have come to England. Doubtless all the Janneys and Jenneys are descended from the progenitor of this Norfolk family of Gyney, and it is probably from a younger son of one of the early Lords of Heverland that the Cheshire Janneys were descended. One writer states that Thomas Janney, the first of the line in America, was "apparently of the Frisby Hall Derby, 1563." The first mention of the family in the county of Cheshire was in the fourteenth century. The first Janney entry in both the Prestbury and Wilmslow registers is the marriage in 1561 of Peter Smyth and Elizabeth Janney, though as early as 1408 a John Janney was present at the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Although there is a copy in the Bishop's registry at Chester of the will of Edward Janny, of Manchester, merchant, dated July 22, 1553, the earliest original Janney will, now preserved at Chester, is that of Thomas Janney, of Styall, 1602. From this will it appears that the father of Thomas Janney was named Randle and left a will, which is not preserved at Chester, and the registrars at Somerset House, London, and Minster Yard, York, state it is not to be found. As he is stated to have left legacies to his granddaugh- ters, Margaret and Anne, who were christened in 1593 and 1595, he must have been living in the former year, and probably in the latter. Judging from the dates of birth of Thomas Janney's children, his father must have been born prior to 1530, but no record has been found of the date and place of his birth and the names of his parents, wife and children, except Thomas.
(Miles White, Jr .: "The Quaker Janneys of Cheshire," Southern History Associations, Vol. VIII. William Davis: "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania," pp. 54-5.)
(I) THOMAS JANNEY, son of Randle Janney, of Styall, parish of Wilmes- lome, Cheshire, England, was buried March 5, 1602, and his will was dated Sep- tember 23, 1601. In his will he mentions his father as having left legacies to his daughters. Thomas Janney was possessed of considerable lands in Cheshire, which he devised to his sons Randle and Harry, his personal estate going to his other children. He married, December 7, 1578, Jane Worthington, who was buried on August 10, 1589. He married (second), November 4, 1590, Katharine Cash. Children of first marriage :
I. Randle, of whom further.
2. Henry.
3. Margerie.
4. Maud.
(Ibid.)
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(II) RANDLE JANNEY, son of Thomas and Jane (Worthington) Janney, was baptized February 23, 1579, and was buried October 30, 1613, having lived and died at Styall, Cheshire. He married, July 14, 1602, Ellen Alrodd, who was buried January 13, 1644. They had four children, the eldest being :
I. Thomas, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(III) THOMAS JANNEY, son of Randle and Ellen (Alrodd) Janney, was bap- tized June 27, 1605, and died December 17, 1677. He and his wife joined the Society of Friends and were buried in the Friends' Burying Ground at Mobberly, Cheshire. He married, September 3, 1625, Elizabeth Worthington, who died December 19, 1681. They had six children, the fifth being Thomas, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(The Family in America).
(I) THOMAS JANNEY, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Worthington) Janney, was born in Styall, Cheshire, England, and baptized there, January II, 1634. He died there February 12, 1696. When he was twenty-one years old he joined the Society of Friends and the next year received a gift in the ministry and preached the gospel in many parts of England and Ireland. In 1663 and at other times he suffered distress of goods for tithes. In 1669, he visited Ireland, convincing many to join with the Friends. He wrote the preface to a book of Alexander Laurence's, entitled "An Answer to a Book Published by Richard Smith," in 1677, and in 1679 he and thirty-two others signed a testimony against William Rogers, of Bris- tol, for having written against a book of Robert Barclay's. He is mentioned as having served on various committees of Morley Monthly Meetings and was well known to George Fox and William Penn. On June 12, 1682, he purchased from William Penn a tract of two hundred and fifty acres of land in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and in 1683 he came to America with his family and two servants, settling at Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. By the registry of arrivals it appears that he, his wife, four sons, and two servants, arrived at the Delaware River the 29th of 7th month, 1683, in the "Endeavor," of London. He became a prominent man and from 1684, when he qualified as a member, he was one of the Provincial Council, until 1686. In 1685 he was commissioned one of the justices of the courts of Bucks County, which commission was renewed, January 2, 1689- 1690. He was one of the commission of twelve men appointed to divide the county into townships in 1690, and filled many other important positions. In the year 1695, he went, in company with Griffith Owen, on a religious visit to Eng- land, attending many meetings in England and Wales. He was stricken sick in the spring of 1696, and died at his sister's house in Cheshire, February 12, 1697, in much quietness of mind, and was buried on the fifteenth of that month at Mobberley. The residence of Thomas Janney in England is described in Friends' records as Pownall Fee, except in the vital records of his daughter, Martha, when it is given as Cheadle. It is thrus inferred that they lived at Styall, though for a year or two they lived at Cheadle. A letter to him from Phineas Pemberton, dated 5-3-1682, requesting him to come to the funeral of his daughter, Ann, is addressed "Thomas Janney, Shadow Moss, Cheshire." Thomas Janney married.
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at Pownall Fee, Cheshire, 9-24-1660, Margery Heath, of Horton, Staffordshire. Children :
I. Jacob, of whom further.
2. Thomas.
3. Abel.
4. Joseph.
5. Martha.
6. Elizabeth.
(Samuel M. Janney: "History of the Religious Society of Friends," Vol. II, p. 393; Vol. III, p. 53. William Davis: "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania," Vol. III, pp. 56-57. Family records taken from Besse: "Sufferings of the Quakers," Vol. I, pp. 104-05. Rutty : "History of Friends in Ireland," p. 132. Joseph Smith: "Catalogue of Friends Books." Evan: "Exposition," p. 27. "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography," Vol. VIII, p. 330; Vol. IX, p. 226. "Pennsylvania Archives," Second Series, Vol. IX, p. 624. "The Friend," Vol. XXVII, p. 340. "Piety Promoted," Vol. I, p. 228. "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography," Vol. XXVII, p. 212.)
(II) JACOB JANNEY, son of Thomas and Margery (Heath) Janney, was born at Pownall Fee, Cheshire, England, 3-18-1662, and was buried in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 8-6-1708. He married, at Falls Meeting, 10-26-1705, Mary Hough. (Hough II.) They had:
1. Thomas, of whom further.
(William Davis: "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania," Vol. III, p. 57.)
(III) THOMAS JANNEY, son of Jacob and Mary (Hough) Janney, was born 12-27-1707, and died 4-8-1788. His father left him the family homestead. He married, at Wrightstown Meeting, Bucks County, October 28, 1732, Martha Mitchell, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Gove) Mitchell. Children:
I. Jacob, born 8-15-1733.
2. Thomas, born 2-17-1736.
3. Richard, of whom further.
4. Mary, born I-18-1741.
5. Sarah, born 10-19-1743; married Daniel Richardson.
6. Alice, born 10-4-1747; married John Dawes.
7. Martha, born 9-11-1750; married Isaac Warner.
(Ibid., pp. 57-58.)
(IV) RICHARD JANNEY, son of Thomas and Martha (Mitchell) Janney, was born 8-22-1738, and died 9-5-1766. He married, in 1764, Sarah Worth. (Worth IV.) They had :
I. Jacob, of whom further.
(Ibid., p. 58.)
(V) JACOB JANNEY, son of Richard and Sarah (Worth) Janney, was born April 10, 1765, and died February 19, 1820. Little is known of his life but, as his mother remarried after the early death of his father, he probably lived in Wrights- town, where his stepfather lived ; in New Jersey, with his maternal grandparents, or near Newtown with his paternal grandparents. At the time of the death of his paternal grandfather, in 1788, he was made executor of the will. He married,
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November 16, 1792, Frances Briggs, daughter of Jolin and Letitia Briggs. Chil- dren, all born at the family homestead near Newtown:
I. Thomas, of whom further.
2. Richard, born March 13, 1796, died in August, 1877; married (first) Ann Taylor; (second) Achsah Yardley.
3. Jacob, born April 24, 1798; married Esther Betts.
4. John L., born May 31, 1800, died April 12, 1872; married Mary Jenks.
5. Martha, born October 14, 1801, died December 6, 1876; married Robert Simpson.
6. Benjamin, born January 17, 1804, died January 8, 1806.
7. Mary, born June 8, 1805, died July 31, 1807.
8. Sarah, born October 21, 1806, died October 10, 1851; married Joshua Dungan.
9. Letitia, born September 25, 1808, died January 22, 1813.
10. William, born March 31, 1810, died March 7, 1891; married Rebecca Smith.
II. Joseph, born September 19, 1812, died October 19, 1887; married Mary Ann Taylor.
12. Mahlon, born December 15, 1815; married Charlotte Brown.
(Ibid., pp. 58-59.)
(VI) THOMAS JANNEY, son of Jacob and Frances (Briggs) Janney, was born August 9, 1794, and died at Newtown, Pennsylvania, in March, 1879. He married, October 11, 1838, Mary Emma Kimber. (Kimber VI.) Children :
1. Anna M., married Otto Bergner.
2. Emmor Kimber, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(VII) EMMOR KIMBER JANNEY, son of Thomas and Mary Emma (Kimber) Janney, was born at Newtown, Bucks County, November 4, 1840, died at Jenkins- town, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1916. He was a member of the firm of Isaac Hough and Company, commission merchants. In 1868, together with his cousin, Robert V. Massey, he formed the firm of Massey and Janney, later E. K. Janney & Son, sole leather commission merchants. He lived at 115-17 South Nineteenth Street, Phila- delphia, in the winter, and at Jenkinstown in the summer, his estate there being known as "Waring." The original house had been built by the Phipps family, who received the land from William Penn. The Waring family had enlarged it one hundred and twenty-five years ago and the Fisher family improved it about 1870; the estate comprised twenty acres of picturesque grounds. He was a mem- ber of the Union League. He married, October 15, 1868, Mary Rhoads Cogge- shall. (Coggeshall VIII.) Children :
I. Marianna, born September 30, 1869, died March 24, 1926.
2. Thomas, born May 9, 1872, died March 22, 1928; married, April 28, 1896, Elinor Wil- son Craig.
3. Walter Coggeshall, of whom further.
4. Gertrude Kimber, born August 13, 1877, died June 18, 1889.
(Ibid. Family data.)
(VIII) WALTER COGGESHALL JANNEY, son of Emmor Kimber and Mary Rhoads (Coggeshall) Janney, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 25, 1876. He was educated at the William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1894; Haverford College, of which he is a graduate, class of 1898; and the University of Pennsylvania Law Department, where he was a student for
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two years. For several years after leaving law school he was on a ranch in Wyom- ing. Upon his return to Philadelphia he entered, in 1905, the sole leather business. later becoming a partner in the firm of Janney & Burrough, manufacturers of sole leather. He severed this connection in 1911 to enter the banking business of Montgomery, Clothier & Tyler, becoming a partner in 1913. The name of the firm was later changed to Montgomery & Company. In 1921 he became president of Montgomery & Company, Incorporated, and in 1922 the name was changed to Janney & Company. He remained president until January 1, 1930, at which time he became chairman of the board. During the World War he was executive man- ager of the Liberty Loan Campaign Committee, Third Federal Reserve District, for the first and second Liberty Loan Campaigns, and a member of the executive committee for the third and fourth Liberty Loan campaigns. In political alliance he has always been a staunch Republican. He is a member of the Philadelphia Club, Rittenhouse Club, Racquet Club, Union League, Radnor Hunt Club and Merion Cricket Club, as well as manager of Haverford College and a trustee of Bryn Mawr Hospital. He is a member of the Society of Friends. .
Walter Coggeshall Janney married, at Bryn Mawr, January 23, 1909, Pauline Flower Morris, daughter of Frederick Wistar and Elizabeth Flower (Paul) Mor- ris, of Philadelphia (q. v.). Children :
I. Walter Coggeshall, Jr., born March 29, 1911.
2. Marian Morris, born September 17, 1912.
3. Anne Flower, born September II, 1914.
4. Margaret Morris (twin), born October 1, 1915.
5. Priscilla Paul (twin), born October 1, 1915.
6. Wistar Morris, born March 15, 1919.
The Janney family home is known as "Weldon" and is near Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Their summer home is "Gansett Point," Woods Hole, Massa- chusetts.
(The Coggeshall Line).
The Coggeshall family was of Norman origin and originally used the form de Coggeshall. They owned large estates in the counties of Essex and Suffolk, including the manors of Little Coggeshall and Codham Hall, Wethersfield, in the vicinity of Coggeshall-on-the-Blackwater, which were in the possession of the family in the time of Thomas de Coggeshall, who lived during the reign of Stephen in the middle of the twelfth century. That monarch built Coggeshall Abbey, which was the most famous of those of the Cistercian Order in 1142.
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