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CABELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Elizabeth Burns
burns@asu.edu
January 1, 2000
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 210
Edward B. Jansman. A chemist and veterinarian, former consulting
veterinarian under the state commissioner of agriculture, Doctor Jansman
is a well known citizen and business man of Huntington, where he is
secretary and treasurer of the unique establishment known as "Farmers,"
the leading cleaning, pressing and dyeing business in that part of the
state.
He was born at Covington, Kentucky, August 25,1885, only child of
Benjamin and Catherine (Runey) Jansman. His father, who was born at
Covington in 1847 and died in that city in 1890, was for many years a
tobacco dealer. The widowed mother is now living at Ashville, North
Carolina, and was born at Covington in 1863.
Edward B. Jansman received his education in the schools of Cincinnati,
attending high school there, and in 1906 graduated with the degree
D.V.M. from the Cincinnati Veterinary College. In the same year he
entered the service of the United States Government in the Department of
Agriculture and the Bureau of Animal Husbandry as a research worker, and
was in that service for twelve years. The territory in which his duties
lay was chiefly Ohio and West Virginia.
Doctor Jansman in 1916 removed to Huntington and remained two years
longer in the Government service. In 1916 he was appointed consulting
veterinarian under the commissioner of agriculture by Governor H.D.
Hatfield. Dr. Jansman in 1918 bought an interest in the "Farmers" and
became chemist as well as secretary and treasurer of the corporation.
The business is incorporated under the laws of West Virginia, and the
officers are: A.J. Hogan of New York City, president; Frank Enslow, vice
president, and E.B. Jansman, secretary and treasurer. The plant and
offices are at 814 Sixth Avenue and the company employs thirty-five
hands.
Doctor Jansman is a member of the Credit Men's Association, the Business
Men's Association, and the Chamber of Commerce, also the Rotary Club,
and the Guyandotte Country Club. He as a leader in local war work,
assisting in the drives for funds. Later he devoted much time to
training disabled soldiers in the technical processes involved in dry
cleaning, so that men suffering total disability for other occupations
could earn a living at this work.
In September 1911, at Cincinnati, Doctor Jansman married Miss Annette E.
Phelan, a native of that city. She is a graduate of Notre Dame College
of Cincinnati. The only child of Doctor and Mrs. Jansman is Lois
Kenrick, born in August 1912.
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