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He graduated from Muhlenberg's Institute, Flushing, Long Island, New York, in 1832 and from Columbia College in 1836, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. Like his father he opposed slavery, and he advocated the cause of St. Philip's coloured church, which after nine years of struggle was admitted to the Protestant Episcopal convention. In 1847 he was secretary of the Irish Relief Society and was in that and subsequent years counsel for many fugitive slaves. He organized the meetings held in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, resulting in the state convention at Saratoga, 10 August 1854, and in the formation of the Republican party upon the dissolution of the Whig party in 1855. He was elected president of the Union League club in 1866 and re-elected in 1877. He was state commissioner for the Federal cemetery at Antietam in 1868 and made a report to Governor R. E. Fenton on the chartered right to burial of the Confederate dead of that campaign. He was U.S. minister to Austria in 1869-75, and advanced the interests of the United States at the World Fair of 1873. He was chairman of the Jay Commission to investigate the system of the New York custom house in 1877, and was Republican member of the state civil service commission in 1883 and subsequently its president. He was manager of the New York Historical Society and a founder and first president of the Huguenot Society in 1855.

Hobart conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1889, and he received the same degree from Columbia in 1891. He is the author of: The Dignity of the Abolition Cause as Compared with the Political Schemes of the Day (1839); Emancipation in the West Indies (1842); Caste and Slavery in the American Church (1843); America, Free or Slave? (1856); Statistics of American Agriculture (1858); The Proxy Bill and Tract Society (1859); Great Conspiracy (1861); Letter on the Monroe Doctrines (1863); Letter to the American Anti-Slavery Society (1864); The Great Issue (1864); and pamphlets on The Church and the Rebellion; Rome in America; The American Foreign Service; The Sunday School a Safeguard to the Republic; The Fisheries Question; The Public School a Portal to the Civil Service; The Passage of the Constitutional Amendment Abolishing Slavery, and other subjects.¹

He was prepared for college at the Columbia Grammar School, conducted by Dr. Charles Anthon, and graduated from Columbia College, A.B., 1859.
     In April, 1861, he was appointed volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff of Maj.-Gen. John E. Wool; was commissioned captain in August, 1861, and served as aide-de-camp to Gen. George Morrell; to Gen. George G. Meade, of the 5th corps, Army of the Potomac; to Gen. George Sykes, who succeeded Meade in command of the 5th corps, and again to General Meade after he had assumed command of the Army of the Potomac. He participated in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, in the Wilderness campaign, in the siege of Petersburg and in the pursuit of Lee's army, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. He was twice brevetted for gallant and meritorious conduct. He resigned from the service when the volunteer army was disbanded in 1865, having attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
     On returning to New York he was graduated from the Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1867, was admitted to the bar in 1868, and practised in New York city in partnership with Edgar S. Van Winkle and Flamen B. Candler, 1868-82, and after Mr. Van Winkle's death continued the partnership with Mr. Candler. Upon the death of his father, May 5, 1894, he inherited the ancestral estate, Bedford House, at Bedford, Westchester County, New York, which had descended to his great grandfather through Mary Van Cortlandt, her great great grandmother.¹

Kennon Jayne, age 88, a lifelong resident of New Canaan died Monday, June 30, 2014 in Norwalk Hospital with his loving family by his side. Kennon was born March 25, 1926 in New York City, he was the son of the late John and Dorothy Sewall Jayne. Kennon was the husband of Sabra Toulson Jayne.
As a boy, Kennon attended Fay and Choate School and graduated from Williams College in 1948. In his early adult years Kennon served as a Lieutenant in the US Navy at the end of World War II and during the Korean War as a signal operator. In 1952, he received an honorable discharge and began his civilian life, married Sabra Toulson in 1957 and started his career at IBM as a Marketing Manager. Kennon was a very active member in the New Canaan community volunteering his time and raising funds for the YMCA, United Way Foundation, Waveny Care Center and Staying-Put, to name a few. He was a very active and distinguished member within the St. Marks church community.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by four sons, John T. Jayne and his wife Karen of Littleton, Mass, Truxtun Sewall Jayne and his wife Christina of Seattle, WA, Joseph K. Jayne and his wife Sibyl of Needham, MA and Houston Jayne and his wife Jennifer of Menlo Park, CA, one sister Pamela Miller of Greenwich, CT and six grandchildren, Hannah, Joe, Maxwell, Sam, Madeleine, and Helen. Kennon was predeceased by his son William M. Jayne.
Interment will be held in the family plot in Bath Maine. A Memorial Service will be held at St Marks Church, Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan CT on Saturday, September 13,2014 at 11:00AM. http://www.hoytfuneralhome.com July 2014.³