Evans, Jervice G
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Dec. 19, 1833, in Marshall county, Ill. In 1854 he entered the ministry of the methodist episcopal church. In 1872 he accepted the presidency of Hedding college of Abingdon, Ill., which he filled for six years. He was then elected president of the Chaddock college, but returned to the pastorate the following year.
In 1889 he accepted for the second time the presidency of Hedding college, which position he still fills. Dr. Evans holds his membership in the Central Illinois conference, in which ne has held numerous positions of honor. His published writings have been largely in the form of pamphlets, lectures and sermons; and a volume entitled The Pulpit and Politics. His other publications have been: The Woman Question; Tobacco; The Liquor Traffic Indicted; Pleas for License; The Sources of Culture; Genesis and Geology; and the Divine Foreknowledge. He has been prominently identified with the prohibition party; in 1888 he was chairman of the Illinois state convention of that party; and chairman of the state delegation to the national convention; and in 1894 was their candidate for United States senator.