Jeanette DuBois Meech

Jeanette DuBois Meech ( Dubois; August 10, 1835 – February 6, 1911) was an American evangelist and industrial educator. She was well known as an evangelist, who married a Baptist clergyman.

For many years, Meech taught school in Philadelphia, and was a teacher in the Maryland State Industrial School for Girls. She served as principal of the Industrial Art School in Vineland, New Jersey and in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. She was licensed to preach in South Vineland, where she was assistant pastor for seven years. 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.

Early life and education Jeanette DuBois (or Jeannette Du Bois) was born in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

Meech learned to read when she was four years old. The first public school in Frankford was built opposite to her home, in 1840, and she attended it as soon as it was opened. She went through all the departments, and afterwards was graduated from the Philadelphia Normal School (now, Philadelphia High School for Girls. in Trenton, New Jersey, she married Rev. William Witter Meech (1825-1908),

The couple had two daughters, the elder of whom married and had two daughters (Anne D. and Lydia J.). and was buried at Siloam Cemetery.