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DeWitt Clinton Jansen
DeWitt Clinton Jansen (born at Shawangunk, New York on 8 November 1840; died 6 November 1894 at Shanghai), was a member of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1893 until his death in November 1894; an Associate judge of the United States Consular Court in Shanghai; the proprietor of the Astor House Hotel in Shanghai, the first western hotel in China, from 1874 to his death in 1894; and was the first District Deputy Grand Master 〔R.W.Bro. Graham Stead, "THE HUNG SOCIETY AND FREEMASONRY THE CHINESE WAY. Part 1—Hung Society to Chinese Masonic Society", ''ANZMRC Proceedings'' 2002; http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/chinese-masonic-society.html〕 of the Cosmopolitan Lodge (No. 428, S. C.) of Freemasons〔Freemasons, Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, ''Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts'' (The Lodge, 1894):142).〕 which began working in Shanghai in 1864.〔"History of Masonry in China", ''The Builder Magazine'' 11:1 (January 1925); http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_builder_1925_january.htm〕 Jansen Road (now Fulu Street) in Yangtsepoo (from 1949 it was renamed Yangpu) was named in his honour.〔JANSEN ROAD (K28):-American who founded the Astor House Hotel in 1860, in "The Streets of Shanghai", ''Tales of Old Shanghai'', http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/streets/t-streets1.htm; HISTORY OF OLD SHANGHAITAN STREET (March 1941); (http://www.geocities.com/zhihguo/mapZ.html )〕
==Family background==
DeWitt Clinton Jansen was of Dutch ancestry, and was born at Shawangunk, New York on 8 November 1840,〔Thomas Patrick Hughes and Frank Munsell, ''American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent, In the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776'' Vols. 4-6 (Clearfield, Co., 1998):57; "()", ''The New York Times'' (24 December 1894):5; http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E00EEDA1231E033A25757C2A9649D94659ED7CF; Charles Ewart Darwent, ''Shanghai: A Handbook for Travellers and Residents to the Chief Objects of Interest in and Around the Foreign Settlements and Native City'', 2nd ed. (Kelly & Walsh, 1920):62.〕 the second son of John Richard Jansen (born 2 March 1804 Wallkill, New York; died 11 March 1845 at Shawganguk) and Rachel Terwilliger (married May 1830),〔Thomas Patrick Hughes and Frank Munsell, ''American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent, In the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776'' Vols. 4-6 (Clearfield, Co., 1998):158.〕 and the brother of Mary, Richard, William, and Cornelius.〔Douglas Van Curen, "DeWitt Clinton Jansen", http://genforum.genealogy.com/jansen/messages/424.html〕 Jansen was the a great-great grandson of Thomas Jansen (1708–1798), who was one of the first settlers in the Wallkill valley, who built the Thomas Jansen House, a Dutch stone house on Jansen Road in Shawangunk.〔Hughes and Munsell, 158.〕 D.C. Jansen is a descendant of Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen, original owner of the piece of ground on Isle van Pappermemmins (Isle of Man Hats, aka Manhattan Island) (Original Patens, Aug 11, 1646) currently home to Columbia University.
〔Douglas Van Curen, ''Van Keulen/Van Keuren/Van Kuren/Van Curen, A Family History'' (Gateway Press).〕 His ancestors were among the first to settle Kingston, New York in 1652.〔〔
After the death of his father in 1845, Jansen and his older brother William (born ca. 1836) lived with his grandparents, Thomas Johnson (Jansen) (born 27 Apr 1777 in Shawangunk, New York), and Leah Bleynman Johnson (Jansen). On 8 November 1871 Jansen married Ellen McGrath (died 12 November 1918 in Shanghai)〔Ellen arrived in Shanghai by 7 July 1871 from Tientsin on the ''Dragon''. See "Arrivals", ''North-China Herald'' (7 July 1871):15. Ellen died at her home at 2 Jeffield Road (later Wanhangdu Lu) on Tuesday, 12 November 1918, and was buried at Pahsinjao Cemetery two days later. The service was conducted by Rev. C.E. Darwent. Her sons-in-law, Messrs. Hide and Everall were chief moyrners. See "Mrs. Ellen Jansen", ''North-China Herald'' (16 November 1918):30.〕 in a ceremony performed by Rev. William Henry Collins, a missionary of the Church Missionary Society,〔"CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY ARCHIVE", Section I: East Asia Missions, http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/cms_section_i_parts_10_to_14/Contents-of-Reels-Part-10.aspx〕 at the Church of Our Saviour, Hongkew, China,〔"Marriage", ''North-China Herald'' (15 November 1871):1; Hughes and Munsell, 158; ''Millard's China National Review'' 9 (7 June 1919):41.〕 one of the first churches in Shanghai.〔The church was built by Bishop William Jones Boone of the American Episcopal Church Mission in 1854. It stood then close by the northern bank of the Whangpoo. See Pott, http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/pott/pott08.htm〕 Jansen and Ellen had seven children:〔Hughes & Munsell, 57.〕 Ellen Rachel (born 19 May 1873 in Shanghai; died 15 March 1955 in Alameda, California);〔Source Citation: Place: Alameda; Date: 15 Mar 1955; Social Security: 0. Source Information: Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 (on-line ).〕 Edith Mary (born 29 March 1874); Mabel (born 10 May 1875); John DeWitt (born 22 July 1876; died 1918);〔John married and had two children, Joyce and Clinton. By 1918 John Jansen had died, and his children were orphans. See ''China Monthly Review'' 4 (Millard Publishing Co., inc., 1918):16.〕 Grace; Edward Clinton (born 28 November 1878);〔Edward Clinton Jansen (usually E. Clinton Jansen) was a civil engineer, specifically a hydraulic engineer. See ''Civil Engineering'' 18 (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1949):26,80; ''Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers'' 31:1 (American Society of Civil Engineers., 1905):218. He was a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (M.ASCE), and the author of several books and articles: E. Clinton Jansen, ''Comments on "Report on repairs to Barker Dam" by Transmission & Station Engineering Department'' (1943); E. Clinton Jansen and Raymond Earl Davis, "Unwatering for Barker Dam repairs (Public Service Company of Colorado, 1945); E. Clinton Jansen, "Estimated Loss of Boulder Hydro Generation During Repairs to Barker Dam" (8 September 1945); Raymond Earl Davis, E. Clinton Jansen, and W.T. Neelands, ''Restoration of Barker Dam'' (14 November 1947). Additionally, he was the chairman of the board of trustees of the Denver Art Museum, see ''Arts Magazine'' 10 (Art Digest Inc., 1935):8.〕 and Catharine (born 5 November 1880).〔
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