William Wallace Janes

As printed in 1914

WILLIAM WALLACE JANES.

The biographies of the representative men of any county brinL lo light many treasures of mind, character and courage which may well arouse the pride of their families and of the communities where they lived. The late William Wallace Janes was distinctively one of the leading citizens of Fayette county. Ohio, and as such made his influence felt among his fellow men. A man of quiet and refined disposition, yet his very integrity and strength of character forced him to the front in such a way as to cause him to he recognized as a leader in the community and a man who always commanded the respect of his contemporaries. The good that a man like Mr. Janes can do in the course of an active life is incalculable and cannot be measured in meets and bounds. He lived an unselfish, helpful and altruistic life, and his fellow citizens were made better by having come into contact with him in his daily life.

The late William Wallace Janes was born May 8, 1850, in Jefferson township, this county, and died May 20, 1909, on the farm where he was born. He was the son of George and Elizabeth (Carr) Janes, his father having been born on the same farm, (george Janes was the son of William Janes, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, and was a prominent farmer of Jefferson township, and reared a family of children who were a credit to his good teachings, James. William Wallace, Catherine, Albert, Frank and Thaddeus.

William W. Janes attended the district schools of his immediate neighborhood and from his earliest boyhood days assisted his father on the home farm. He continues to live at home until his marriage, after which he began to farm a part of the old home farm. He prospered exceedingly and was enabled to augment his possessions from time to time until at the time of his death he was the owner of four hundred and twenty-five acres of fine land in Jefferson township. His farm was one of the best improved in the county, and was a tribute to his skill as a farmer and his good management as a business man.

Mr. Janes was married January 16, 1884, to Emma Glaze, the daughter of Adam and Lucy (Baughn) Glaze. Adam Glaze was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, and when a youth came to this county with his parents, george and Catherine (Turnipseed) Glaze, who brought their family from Virginia in 181 5, and settled on Paint creek. To Adam Glaze and wife were born eight children, Mrs. Catherine Fultz, Mrs. Elizabeth Seymour. Mrs. Samantha Engle, Mrs. Drusilla Boyd, Mrs. Emma Janes. Mrs. Ella Squier and Chandler. Three of these children, Samantha, Drusilla and Ella, are deceased.

Mr. Janes and his wife reared a family of three children, Fred C, Thomas and Frank. Fred C. married Mary Allen and has three children, Marion, Ellen and Susan: Frank is a graduate of Ohio State University and is now engaged in the fruit business. The other son, Thomas, was a student in Ohio State University and is operating the home farm.

Politically, Mr. Janes was a life-long Republican and was frequently honored by his party by being elected to positions of trust and responsibility. He served as trustee of Jefferson township, and for many years was a member of the school board, serving as president of the board of education of Jefferson township. He was a man of high civic ideals and a warm supporter of all measures and enterprises tending to advance the general welfare of his community. Always calm and dignified, never demonstrative, his life was a persistent plea, more by precept and example than by Avritten or spoken words, for the purity and grandeur of right principles and the beauty and elevation of wholesome character.

As printed in History of Fayette County, Ohio : her people, industries and institutions (1914). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.