Rev. Jacob Jones Janeway

Clergyman. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1799. Served as assistant Pastor and Pastor of the 2nd Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia from 1799 to 1828. Director of the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1813 to 1830, and from 1840 to 1858.

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JANEWAY, Jacob Jones, clergyman, born in New York city, 20 November, 1774; died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 27 June, 1858. His family came from England early in the 17th century, one of whom bore with him the charter of Trinity church, of which he was a vestryman. He died about 1708. Jacob was graduated at Columbia in 1794, and after studying theology with Dr. John H. Livingston was ordained in 1799 a colleague of Dr. Ashbel Green in the 2d Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, where he remained till 1828. After holding for one year the chair of theology in the Western theological seminary, he was pastor of a Dutch Reformed church in New Brunswick, New Jersey, for two years. He was elected a trustee of Rutgers in 1820, and in 1833-'9 was vice president of that college and professor of literature, the evidences of Christianity, and political economy. He then became a trustee of Princeton, and was engaged till his death in general missionary work and in supervision of theological and collegiate institutions in the Presbyterian church. He was a director of Princeton theological seminary from 1813 till 1830 and again from 1840 till 1858, and president of the board from 1849 till 1858. He joined his friend, Dr. Jonathan Cogswell, of New Brunswick, in the gift of a church to the Presbyterians of that city. His publications include "Commentaries on Romans, Hebrews, and Acts" (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1866); "Internal Evidence of the Holy Bible"; "Communicants' Manual"; "On Unlawful Marriage" (New York, 1844); "Review of Dr. Schaff on Protestantism"; and essays and letters on religious subjects. See "Memoir of Reverend Jacob J. Janeway," by his son, Thomas L. Janeway (Philadelphia, 1861).