Biographical Sketch of D. W. B. Tevis, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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D. W. B. Tevis, P. O. Lexington, Mo., was born in Boonville, Cooper 
county, Mo., October 21, 1834, where he was reared on a farm and educa-
ted at the Masonic College, Lexington, Mo.  In 1859 he set out to seek 
his fortune and landed at Lexington, this county, and went clerking in 
the drug store of Chapman & Horne, where he continued until 1864, when
he bought out the firm and entered upon the business alone, which he 
has continued to the present time.  He now carries a large stock of
drugs, etc., and has a flourishing trade, and has a fine farm of 160
acres.  He was twice county assessor, in 1862 and in 1864.  In 1863 he
married Miss Julia Waddell of Lexington.  He had four children, two
living: Susan and Simeon J.

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