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friend and teacher when the latter was struck down by a fatal bullet. Eustis was soon made a hospital surgeon and went with Washington's army to New York. He had the reputation of being a "humane, faithful and indefati- gable officer." In 1786 he served in a campaign against the Indians and in Shays' rebellion. He then withdrew from the army. Subsequently he was successively a member of Congress, secretary of war, minister to Holland, and governor of Massachusetts, and died, while holding this office, in 1S25.

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Brown, Hist. Med. Dep. U. S. Army, Wash- ington, 1873. Twent. Cent. Biogr. Diet. Notable Americans, Bost., 1904.

Evans, John M. (1S20-1903).

John M. Evans was born in Rutland County, Vermont, February 12, 1820, where he lived till 1838, when he left his New England home for the untried West, settling in LaPorte, Indiana. Here for three years he worked as a carpen- ter, then entered the LaPorte Medical College, from which, in 1S46, he grad- uated.

He removed to a little hamlet, known as "The Grove," in the following year, and one year later the place was chris- tened Evansville, in honor of the young physician who in so short a time had won by his skill the respect of all around. On June 1, 1S54 he was married at La Porte, Indiana, to Emma Clement who died in 1899. They had three children; the son, John M. became a doctor. In 1861 Dr. Evans entered the Union Army as surgeon of the thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served until March, 1865, and was also on the staff of Gen. Robert Granger. After re- ceiving an honorable discharge he prac- tised in Evansville until August 9, 1903, when he was stricken with his last illness.

In 1896, when Evansville became a city, he was elected her first mayor. S. T. C.

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Eve, Joseph Adams (1S05-1886).

Joseph Adams, obstetrician and gyne- cologist, son of Dr. Joseph Eve by his second wife Hannah Singleterry, was born near Charleston, South Carolina August 1, 1805. He came of an old loyalist family of Philadelphia who, be- cause of political opinions, sacrificed their property and left the country at the beginning of the Revolution and settled in Jamaica, West Indies. His father, Dr. Joseph Eve, was a highly cultivated man of decided inventive and poetic genius. He invented the brush and roller cotton gin and was the author of many poems. Joseph Eve, Sr., returned to the United States about the year 1S00 and engaged in planting first near Charleston, South Carolina and afterwards near Augusta, Georgia.

Dr. Eve received his education in the country schools of his day, but ac- quired a knowledge of Greek and Latin and several of the modern languages unassisted by teachers. He studied medicine under Dr. Milton Anthony and attended his first course of lectures in Liverpool, 1S27, graduating M. D. from the Medical College of South Caro- olina in 1S2S. and after this was associ- ated with Dr. Anthony in establishing at Augusta, the Georgia Academy of Medicine. This institution was a hos- pital for patients as well as a school for the instruction of students. In 1833 it became the Medical College of Geor- gia and in 1873 was made the medical department of the University of Geor- gia. In the first faculty of the Medical College of Georgia, Eve held the chair of materia medica and therapeutics, but on the death of Dr. Anthony was transferred to and held for fifty-three years that of obstetrics and diseases of women and children (1839).

As a teacher he was clear, exact, and eminently practical; his lectures always carefully prepared and first written out, and he was ever untiring in the interest of his students. Throughout his long and useful career as a teacher he boldly and persistently advocated adoption of