JANVIER, Ernest Paxton. Fatehgarh, India 1.2.1890 — Haverford, PA 3.5.1962. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of Rev. Dr. Caesar Augustus J. and Susan Duryee Rankin, grandson of —> Levi J. Born in India, came to the U.S.A. in 1905. Studies at Princeton, ordained priest 191?. Wesleyan missionary in India from 1916/20, first in Fatehgarh, then Allahabad. Wrote his Ph.D. dissertation (part of which was published in 1921) to the University of Pennsylvania. Retired 1957. Married 1916 Alma Thornton Johnson (1891–1986; thus wikitree.com, findagrave and others, but Pr. Al. Weekly names her as Margaret Spurgeon).
Publications: Translated: The Madhyama Vyāyoga. Transl. with notes. 44 p. Mysore 1921; “The Tattva Prakasa of King Bhoja Deva”, IA 1925, 6 p.
– Ria’yat Ahmed as I knew him. 36 p. Allahabad 1938.
Sources: Review of his book in the IA; birth and parents in ancestry.com; marriage in Princeton Alumni Weekly 4.10.1916; death in http://indologica.de/drupal/?q=node/80; findagrave.com with photo; www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-190.
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