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R. E. Hieronymus
The ancestors of Robert Enoch Hieronymus came originally from Germany to Virginia. Emigrated later to the "Blue Grass" region, Kentucky; then came to Illinois in 1828.
His parents, Benjamin 'R. and Susan Mary (Mountjoy) Hieronymus, lived in Logan county,
Illinois, where he was born, December 8, 1862.
After the district school, he attended and graduated from Illinois State Normal University, and later from Eureka College. He then spent one year in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
His mother died when he was eleven years old, and from that time until he attained his majority he lived with an uncle, Enoch Hieronymus.
Since the fall of 1889 he has been teaching in Eureka College, in the department of English Language and Literature.
He was married June 26, 1890, to Minnie Frantz, at Wellington, Kansas. Two children bless their home—Faith Helene, and Frank Mountjoy.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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