May 7, 1820 - December 20, 1882

Father: Sylvanus Janes
Birth: 6 SEP 1780 in Vergennes, VT
Death: abt 1853 in Mokena, Will County, Il

Mother: Laura MCNAMARA
Birth: ABT 1783 in possibly VT
Death: ???
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Grandfather: Capt. Noah Janes (52005977)
Occupation: Farmer
Note: Note: Captain, US Army during Shay's Rebellion.
Birth: 19 NOV 1753 in Easthampton MA
Death: ??? in Vergennes VT

Married: 11 JAN 1776

Grandmother: Naomi STRONG (52005984)
Birth: 18 JUL 1757 in Sheldon VT
Death: ???
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Albert's Lineage:

Albert Sylvanus Janes son of:

Sylvanus Janes (1780-1853) and Laura McNamara
son of Noah Janes (1753-1776) and Naomi Strong (?-1808), son of Samuel Janes (1724-1788)and Hannah Brown (?-1788), son of Samuel Janes (1693-?) and Abigail,
son of Samuel Janes (1663/64-1704)and Sarah Hinsdell,
son of William Janes (1610-1690) and Hannah Broughton.
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Albert married Sarah Brooks in 1847. She died in 1848. They had a daughter named Mary Cornelia. In 1857 he married Charlotte B. Powers. He was a Justice of the Peace as well as Postmaster. In 1873 elected a Dupage County judge until 1877.
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Children with Charlotte:

Edna Frances (b.? d.1918)
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Illinois Civil War Detail Report:

Name: JANES, ALBERT S
Rank: CPT
Company: "H"
Unit: 141 IL US INF

Personal Characteristics:

Residence: MILTON, DUPAGE CO, IL
Age: 42
Height: 6'
Hair: BROWN
Eyes: GRAY
Complexion: LIGHT
Marital Status: MARRIED
Occupation: SURVEYOR
Nativity: LIVINGSTON CO, NY

Service Record:

Joined When: MAY 26, 1864
Joined Where:MILTON, IL
Joined By Whom: A S JANES
Period: 100 DAY
Muster In: JUN 16, 1864
Muster In Where: CAMP KANE, IL
Muster Out: OCT 10, 1864
Muster Out Where: CHICAGO, IL
Muster Out By Whom: LT HORR
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++141st Regiment, Illinois Infantry (100 days, 1864)++

Overview:

Organized at Elgin, Ill., and mustered in for 100 days June 16, 1864. Moved to Columbus, Ky., and Garrison duty in that District till October. Mustered out October 10, 1864. Regiment lost by disease during service 21.
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***JANES*** (From the Story of an Old Town -Glen Ellyn)

ALBERT S. JANES, son of Sylvanus Janes and Laura M. Janes, was born May 7th, 1820, in Livingston County, New York.

He traced his descent from Geoffrey de Jeanne, one of the Crusaders of France, who, in 1204, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; subsequently making two others with his son, Guido de Jeanne, he was entitled to the three escallop shells engraved on the Janes coat of arms. When the son removed to England the name was changed by dropping the prefix and finally was Anglicized to read Janes.

***THE STORY OF AN OLD TOWN— GLEN ELLYN 177***

William Janes, who came to America with the Davenport colony in 1637, was the first ancestor to settle in this country. Albert Janes was one of the seventh generation of his descendants in America. Several of his ancestors served in the Revolutionary War. In 1834 his father's family came to Illinois from New York with several other families
seeking homes in the great new west. The long journey was made with horses and wagons, and a home was established in DuPage County, where the family resided continuously for
many years, with the exception of a short time spent in Will County, where Sylvanus Janes, the father, died at Mokena. Two of the daughters of the family, Harriet and Ruth, were among the early school teachers of DuPage County. In 1847 Albert Brooks and Cornelia Brooks, who died in 1848, leaving an infant daughter, Mary Cornelia, now Mrs. H. W. Yalding, of River Forest. In 1851 Albert S. Janes made the overland trip to the gold fields of California, one of the members of a wagon train of prospectors and gold seekers. After a stay of two years in California he returned richer only in interesting experiences. He came home by water from San Francisco, down the Pacific to the Isthmus of Panama, and there up the Atlantic to New York. He was regarded as quite a traveler, and his stories of his adventures commanded wide interest. In 1856, in his odd minutes, with almost no help, he built a small house at the southeast corner of Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, in Danby (where the Buchholz Building now stands). In 1857 he married Charlotte B. Powers, daughter of Daniel Carpenter Powers and Nancy Maria (Palmer) Powers, fetching his wife to this new house where they lived till 1869. The house was later moved to the rear of the lot where it stood facing north till 1922, when it was torn down. Few persons remember that this simple, little white house with green blinds and vine covered porch, surrounded by beautiful hard maple trees that Mr. Janes had set out in 1855, was used by Uncle Sam as a post office for the village of Danby. Albert Janes had been a Justice of the Peace as well as postmaster for some time in the early 60's, and had both the post office and his own office in an old house immediately south of his home. It was here he kept his desk and small library and presided over the minor cases. But in 1864, though past the draft age, he enlisted and received his captain's commission from Gov. Richard Yates, appointing him to serve as Captain of Co. H. of the 141st Illinois Infantry. 'So the post office changed its quarters. A place was made for it in the Janes' home by building a small enclosure across the south end of the porch, installing boxes, with a delivery window and a door cut into the family dining room. Mrs. Janes, sworn in as deputy, served during her husband's absence. Mr. Janes served the district many years as school director. He was also on the county board of supervisors from Milton Township for many years. He was elected to the office of county surveyor several times, and also served as a deputy under other surveyors. Probably no one at that time knew more of the geography and topography of DuPage County than he. With the railroad's surveyor, he surveyed the route through the northern part of the county for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, which, in those days was called by the DuPage County people "the Hough Railroad" as the road was promoted by Col. Roselle Hough, and he was president for a time. Mr. Janes also laid out all the new towns that sprang into existence along this route about that time, as well as many subdivisions and additions to the older towns.

***THE STORY OF AN OLD TOWN— GLEN ELLYN 178***

When the village of Babcock's Grove was re-platted and its name changed to Lombard, in honor of Josiah Lombard, a Chicago capitalist, Mr. Janes did all of the field work and making of plats. In co-operation with Mr. Lombard and Gen. B. J. Sweet, he made the final plat at his own home, and each man chose a street to which he gave the name of his wife. Mrs. Lombard's name was Elizabeth; Mrs. Sweet's, Martha; Mrs. Janes', Charlotte. Mr. Janes was a charter member of the Odd Fellows of the Danby Lodge, and served as the Noble Grand of the Order and also as secretary. In politics he was a staunch Republican, and was always proud of a personal interview with Abraham Lincoln in his Springfield home, and of having heard the famous
Lincoln-Douglas debate at Freeport. In 1873 Mr. Janes was elected county judge of DuPage County, an office he held till 1877 when he was compelled to resign because of ill health. A copy of a poor photograph, the only one in existence, hangs with those of other judges in the court house at Wheaton, where he spent the last years of
his active business life. His name as one of DuPage County's volunteer soldiers in the Civil War is on a bronze tablet in the court house. After 6 years of invalidism, Albert S. Janes died at his home December 20, 1882. He and both his first and second wives are buried in Forest Hill
Cemetery. Charlotte Powers Janes, his second wife, was born in Rutland, Vermont, May 17, 1833. She was a descendant of Revolutionary ancestors on both paternal and maternal sides and her father's father was a soldier in the War of 1812. She was educated in public and private schools and taught school in Vermont and in Illinois, where she came in 1853.

She was the mother of seven children, all of them born in Danby. They were:

1. Mattie A., born 1858, daughter of Albert S. and Charlotte B. Powers Janes, married September 26, 1876, at Prospect Park, Wilbur E. Coe, son of Harvey H. and Jane E. White Coe, of Bloomingdale, Illinois. Wilbur E. Coe
died August 14, 1924, at Evanston, Illinois. Children: Ethel Louise, born November 11, 1878; Edna, born April 25, 1881; Marjorie, born February 20, 1888.

2. Edna Frances, daughter of Albert S. Janes and Charlotte B. Powers Janes, married 1887, Theodore J. Schmitz, at Elgin. She died October 30, 1918. One child: Dorothy L., born April 9, 1897.

3. Albert B. Janes married Winnie Warner at Pilot Rock, Oregon, February 17, 1892. His wife died September 5, 1915. Children: Lois M., born February 6, 1893, married Arthur Richards; Ashley, born April 9, 1894, died December 16, 1919; Leon, born September 20, 1895, died May 21, 1916; Jessie, born September 26, 1898, died November 2, 1915; Sara, born August 11, 1900, died June 16, 1926; Gladys, born December 8, 1902, died January 3, 1921; Charlotte (Lottie), born December 14, 1904; Gertrude, born April 19, 1910; Thelma, born August 29, 1912. All children born in Pilot Rock, Oregon.

4. Jessie E., Mrs. Thomas J. Garrison. Children: Dee, born April 2, 1886; Ruth, born December 29, 1887; Charlotte, born July 12, 1890; Lloyd, born April 3, 1892; Neal, born November 7, 1893; Harold, born May 14, 1895; Grace, born
May 18, 1897; Mary, born February 13, 1899; Jesse, born January 5, 1901 (all born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, or Prospect Park till 1891-2); Katharine, born October 17, 1902; Harriet, born March 23, 1905 (born in Hartford, Michigan).

5. Arthur S., unmarried.

6. George P., born February 23, 1871, died September 30, 1872.

7. Harley C, married Alison Warner in Pendleton, Oregon; he died June 1, 1904, she died May 15, 1904. Children: Theodore C, born February 2, 1899; Dorothy, born November 30, 1901.

— Mattie Janes Coe.
From the book "The Story of an Old Town - Glen Ellyn.
by Ada Douglas Harmon

Published by Anan Harmon Chapter D.A.R.
Pages 176 through 178.
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