Edmund Storer Janes

1807–1876 (age 69)

Industrialist

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About Edmund Storer Janes

Edmund Storer Janes (1807–1876) lived to age 69. They were an industrialist. Born in Sheffield, they died in Manhattan. They are buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in New York.

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