He was born in Missouri March 11, 1860, and is the son of George W. and Mary E. (See) Janes, natives respectively of Kentucky and Virginia. George W. Janes came to Missouri with his parents in 1852, when he was ten years old. They first settled at Palmyra. He learned the trade of wagon maker and engaged in the manufacture of wagons at Hunnewell where he continued to reside until 1882, when he removed to Pilot Grove where he died in 1906. Both parents were worthy members of the Methodist church. John, father of George W. and grandfather of Dr. Janes, was a native of Kentucky and a pioneer of that state, but in 1852 he moved to Missouri where he lived until his death. Mary E. (See) Janes was a daughter of George W. See, who removed from Virginia to Monroe county, Missouri, in an early day and spent the remainder of his life there.