Jeanette DuBois Meech

She was a county superintendent and national lecturer in narcotics for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.

), all the while maintaining her interest in industrial education, and supporting her family by a successful business career.

[3] Jeanette DuBois (or Jeannette Du Bois) was born in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[1] August 10, 1835.

[3] Her father, Gideon Du Bois (1809-1891), was descended from the French-Huguenots, He was a deacon in the Baptist Church for nearly half a century.

[1] After graduation, Meech began teaching in the Frankford school, and taught there eight years, resigning her position in 1860.

He was afterwards stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and there she had a Sunday-school class in the convalescent ward of the hospital.

[1] In 1869, during her husband's pastorate in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, she opened a free industrial school in the parsonage, with 100 scholars, boys and girls.

The materials were provided, and they taught cooking, canning and housekeeping as well as sewing, reading, writing, drawing, arithmetic and music.

[1] Mr. Meech served pastor of the South Vineland Baptist Church for seventeen years.

[1] Mrs. Meech started a Sunday-school in Vineland Center, in the face of obstacles, and conducted it for ten years, serving as superintendent, collecting a library and training teachers for the work.

[1] In 1887, Mrs. Meech was appointed by the trustees of the Vineland high school to introduce there and to superintend the department of manual education.

[1] In 1890, in company with Mrs. Ives, of Philadelphia, she commenced a series of cottage prayer meetings in Holly Beach City, New Jersey.

In 1862, he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as hospital chaplain; and served at Newport News, Louisville, and Bowling Green.

[5] Jeanette D. Meech died at her home in Holly Beach, New Jersey, February 6, 1911,[7] and was buried at Siloam Cemetery.