Richard Janney

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1806

Birth Place: Virginia

Death Date: 1874

Death Place: Baltimore

Affiliations: Baltimore Friends meeting , Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends , Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings , Society of Friends

Notes: Richard M. Janney, the son of Abijah and Jane, married Sarah Hopkins. Worked with convicts in Maryland Penitentiary and established a First-Day School their. His work led to the foundation of the "Prison Relief Association" of which he was an officer. Worked for abolition and, after Emancipation, helped establish almost 100 schools for freed blacks. He was an Elder of Baltimore Monthly and died in 1874 at the age of 69. Attended Conference of Seven Yearly Mtgs as representative from BYM 1869.

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