[Charles Janeway]. American historian, born in Philadelphia, PA, on the 23rd of September 1819. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar after graduation at Yale in 1839; served as a member of the Sanitary Commission executive committee during the Civil War; and received the appointment of professor of history in the University of Pennsylvania in 1866. In 1868 he was appointed provost at that institution, a position he retained until 1880. He published How a Free People Conduct a Long War (1862); History of the United States Sanitary Commission (1866); Studies in Mediæval History (1881).
