Evans, Alexander – Evans, John G
Evans, Alexander
soldier, merchant, poet, was born Nov. 9, 1814, in Middletown, Ky. He served in the army in 1847-48, and in 1861 became major in the confederate service. He is the author of two volumes of poems entitled Æneas; and Fashions.
Evans, Alonzo
journalist, was born July 18, 1866, in Winneshiek county, Iowa.
He is the editor and owner of The Sun of Lime Springs, Iowa; and takes a prominent part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Evans, Charles I
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 29, 1843, in Noxubee county, Miss. He received his education at the Baylor university, Texas; and the university of Virginia. In 1861 he entered the confederate army as a private; served four years; and was promoted to first lieutenant of artillery in 1863. He is one of the leading lawyers of Texas, and is prominently identified with the public affairs of Dallas, where he has served with distinction as district judge.
Evans, David E
congressman. He was elected a representative from New York to the twentieth congress, but resigned.
Evans, David Reid
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1769, in England. He served in the state legislature from 1800 to 1803; and from 1804 to 1811 was solicitor for the middle district of South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1813 to 1815; and in 1818 and 1822 was a member of the state senate. He died March 8, 1843, in South Carolina.
Evans, De Scott
artist, was born March 28, 1847, in Boston, Ind. He opened a studio in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, and became instructor and co-director in the Academy of Fine Arts of Cleveland, Ohio.
He is especially skillful in painting draperies. His genre pictures include The * First Snowfall; Grandma's Visitors; and Day Before the Wedding.
Evans, Dudley
legislator, was born Jan. 27, 1838, in Monongalia county, W.
Va. During the war he was a member of the Virginia legislature. In 1891 he was elected one of the board of directors, and made second vice-president of the Wells- Fargo and Co. of New York city.
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.
Evans, Frederick William
lecturer, author, was born June 9, 1808, in England. He was an elder among the Shakers of Lebanon, N. Y., from 1838.
He is the author of Compendium of Origin, History and Doctrines of Shakers; Shaker Communism; Autobiography of a Shaker; Second Appearing of Christ; and Test of Divine Inspiration, which are his chief works. He died in 1893.
Evans, George
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 12, 1797, in Hallowell, Maine. In 1825 he was elected a member of the Maine state legislature, and acted a leading part for four consecutive years, and was elected speaker of the house in the latter year. In 1829 he year. was elected to congress; served seven successive terms; and was then elected to the senate of the United States. He was a candidate for the vice-presidency when General Taylor was put in nomination for president. After eighteen years of service in congress he returned to his own state and his profession; and was attorney-general of Maine for three years. He was the first president of the Portland and Kennebec railway; and was a trustee and a member of the board of overseers of Bowdoin college. He died April 6, 1867, in Portland, Maine.
Evans, George Spittell
clergyman, litterateur, was born June 3, 1869, in England. He studied at St. Mark's and afterward at St.
John's national schools of London, England; and subsequently took a theological course in the Oberlin college, Ohio. During 1887- 90 he preached with success in North Kensington, London, England; during 1890-92 he filled a pastorate in Black Creek, N. Y.; Lake Benton, Minn., in 1894; when he took charge of a church at Hudson, S. D. He has lectured extensively in Europe and America; and has held the position of instructor of political economy for Lincoln county, Minn.; and as state visitor for Carleton college, Minnesota. He has contributed extensively to church literature.
Evans, H. Clay
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born June 18, 1843, in Juniata county, Pa. He was an enlisted man in the forty-first Wisconsin infantry during the late war; and was twice elected mayor of Chattanooga. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Evans, Henry G
journalist, was born in 1812. He was co-editor and proprietor of the New York Evening Mirror almost from the beginning of its career to its close, and was one of the best writers for the daily press in the city. He died Aug. 14, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Evans, Hugh Davy
lawyer, author, was born April 26, 1792, in Baltimore, Md.
He was a Baltimore lawyer, conspicuous for loyalty to the union during the civil war, who wrote on legal and high church topics. He was the author of Essay on Pleading; Maryland Common Law Practice; Essay on the Episcopate; Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage; Essays on the Validity of Anglican Ordination; and Theophilus Americanus. He died July 16, 1868, in Baltimore, Md.
Evans, I. Newton
physician, banker, congressman, was born July 29, 1827, in Chester county, Pa. He was president of the Hatboro National bank; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a republican.
Evans, James Lafayette
merchant, congressman, was born March 27, 1825, in Harrison county, Ky. He was elected a representative from Indiana in the forty-fourth congress. He was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
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.
Evans, Joe
artist, was born in 1857 in New York city. During 1891-94 he was president of the Art Students' league of New York; 1892-94 was secretary of the Society of American Artists; and since 1894 vice-president of the American Fine Arts society.
Evans, John
congressman. He was a delegate to the continental congress from Delaware, from 1776 to 1777.
Evans, John
geologist, was born Feb. 14, 1812, in Portsmouth, N. H. He discovered fossil bones of extinct species; made geological surveys of Washington and Oregon; and was geologist to Chiriqui commission. He died April 13, 1861, in Washington, D. C.
Evans, John
physician, governor, was born March 9, 1814, in Waynesville, Colo. Becoming known for public spirit, he was elected to the Chicago city council in 1852. The city of Evanston was founded by him as a site for the Northwestern university, and his extensive real estate investments there brought him a large return. The Chicago and Fort Wayne railroad was projected and built by him and others. In 1862 an important change in his career grew out of an appointment by President Lincoln as governor of the then territory of Colorado.
Evans, John G
planter, lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Oct. 15, 1863, in Cokesbury, S. C. He is a successful lawyer and planter of Aiken, S. C. In 1888 he became a member of the house of representatives of South Carolina; was re-elected in 1890; and in 1892 was elected to the state senate. In 1894 he was elected governor of the state of South Carolina, and served in that office with distinction.