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Evans, Edward Payson

author, was born Dec. 8, 1833, in Remsen, N. Y.

He is an Oriental scholar who has lived chiefly in Europe, and the author of Abriss der Deutschen Literaturgeschichte; Progressive German Reader; and translation of Stahr's Life and Works of Lessing. EVANS, MRS. ELIZABETH EDSON (GIBSON), author, was born March 8, 1833, in Newport, N. H. She is the author of The Abuse of Maternity; Laura, an American Girl; The Story of Kaspar Hauser; and The Story of Louis XVII. of France. of EVANS, ELIZABETH HEWLINGS, poet, was born in 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. A volume of her poems, with a preface by her brother, the Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, was published shortly before her death. She died in 1855 in Philadelphia, Pa.

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