The Jeanes Six, as I call the six siblings who lived to adulthood—Jacob, Joshua, Samuel, Joseph, Mary, and Anna—stayed out of the spotlight intentionally. Occasionally, you see one of their names printed in a small blurb in a Philadelphia newspaper as having been to this annual meeting or contributing to that cause. For example, a notice in The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1883 shows Mary and Samuel Jeanes as having contributed to a children’s sanitarium.[13] Another article shows that both Samuel and Joseph sent money to a fund to help flood victims out west.[14] The Jeanes Six cared about the
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