Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Unknown Co.

REV. JOHN TEVIS was born in Baltimore County, Md., January 6, 1792, came
with his father to Kentucky in 1807, was engaged with his father (who had
been a soldier in the Revolutionary war) in farming until 1815, when he
entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He labored in
such arduous work, which in that early day was one of great hardship, for
many years.  He was a man of eminent piety, respected and beloved by all
who knew him.  He died January 23, 1861.  Mrs. Julia A. Tevis was the
daughter of Pendleton and Mary Hieronymus, who cam from Virginia to
Kentucky in the latter part of the last century.  They settled near
Lexington, and there Julia was born, December 5, 1799.  In a few years Mr.
Hieronymus, not being satisfied with the new country, as Kentucky then was,
returned to Virginia.  He located for a time at Paris, Va., afterward in
Winchester, where their daughter entered an excellent female academy
taught by Rev. Hill, a Presbyterian minister, assisted by Rev. Streight, a
minister of the Dutch Reformed Church.  In a few years the family removed
to Washington City, where the subject of this sketch was educated in the
best schools of the city.  In 1820, owing to financial embarrassments of
the father, Julia Hieronymus accepted the position of governess in the
family of Gen. Smyth at Wythe Court House, Va.,  Gen. Smyth being at this
time a member of the House of Representatives at Washington.  After
remaining a year or two with this family, she accepted a similar position
in the family of Capt. Frank Smith of Abingdon.  March 9, 1824, Rev. John
Tevis and Julia A. Hieronymus were married at the residence of Capt.
Smith, in Abingdon.  The following autumn they came to Kentucky.  March
25, 1825, Rev. John Tevis and wife established Science Hill Academy.  The
school prospered and grew rapidly.  There was always a large number of
pupils, not only from Kentucky, but from the southwestern States.  For
more than fifty years Science Hill was the largest protestant school in
the valley of the Mississippi.  For more than fifty years Mrs. Tevis
presided over the institution with wonderful success.  Many of the most
accomplished women of the country were her pupils.  Hundreds of homes
have been blessed by her instructions and example.  She taught and managed
the school until a little more than a year before her death, which occurred
April 21, 1880.

Tevis Hieronymus Smyth Smith Hill Streight
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Baltimore-MD VA

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