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380 of the state house of representatives in 1873, and was elected a member of the state senate for four years in 1874. He was chosen to the U. S. senate as a Democrat in January, 1876, to fill the vacancy which, it was claimed, existed by failure of the senate to give the seat to P. B. S. Pinchback, who had been elected in 1878. Only three Republicans took part in the election, on the ground that no vacancy existed, and Mr. Eustis was not given his seat till late in 1877, serving till 1879. He then became professor of civil law in the University of Louisiana, but in 1884 was again elected to the U. S. senate for the full term of six years. — Abra- ham's son, Henry Lawrence, engineer, b. at Fort Independence, Boston, Mass., 1 Feb., 1819 ; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 11 Jan., 1885, was graduated at Harvard in 1838, and in that year was appointed to the U. S. military academy, where he was gradu- ated at the head of his class in 1842. He was then assigned to the engineer corps, and ordered to Washington as assistant to the chief engineer. He assisted in the construction of Fort Warren and Lovell's island sea-wall, in Boston harbor, in 1843-5, and during the following two years was connected with engineering operations in Newport harbor. In 1847 he was made the principal assist- ant professor of engineering at West Point, but resigned in 1849 in order to become professor of engineering in Harvard, and organized that de- partment in the Lawrence scientific school there, and held this office until his death. He was dean of the scientific faculty from 1871 till 1885. In the civil war he was colonel of the 10th Massachu- setts volunteers, and served at Williamsport, Fredericksburg, Maiye Heights, Salem, Gettys- burg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, Wilder- ness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and many minor actions. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers on 13 Sept., 1863, and resigned on 37 June, 1864, owing to impaired health. He returned to his college duties in Cambridge in 1864. He was a member of various learned societies, to whose transactions he contributed papers, and also wrote reports and technical articles.

EVANS, Anthony Walton White, civil engineer, b. in New Brunswick, N. J., 31 Oct., 1817 ; d. in New Vork city, 38 Nov., 1886. He received his early education in New Jersey, and then studied civil engineering at the Rensselaer polytechnic institute in Troy. His first professional employment was on the enlargement of the Erie canal, where he served principally on the eastern division. He was made assistant on the survey and construction of the New York and Harlem railway in 1845, and for five years was resident engineer of two divisions of this work. He then accompanied Allan Camp- bell to Chili, and became his principal assistant in the construction of the Capiapo railroad. Subse- quently he entered the employ of the Chilian gov- ernment as chief engineer in the construction of one of its railroads, and still later was appointed chief engineer of the Arica and Tacua railway com- pany in Peru. After a brief visit to the United States, he returned to Chili, and became chief en- gineer on several railroads then in course of build- ing under the direction of the government. On the completion of these he came back to the United States and settled in New Rochelle, N. Y., resum- ing his profession as a consulting engineer, and acting as purchasing agent of rolling-stock and other railway materials for various governments and companies of South and Central America, and the islands of the South sea. Mr. Evans took an active interest in the matter of a ship-canal be- tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and favored the San Bias route. He was a fellow of the Ameri- can society of civil engineers, and other societies both in the United States and England, to whose proceedings he contributed. In addition to the foregoing, ho wrote occasionally for magazines, and furnished reports on the " Preservation of Timber." "Railway Gauges for the British Colonies," and similar subjects, to different governments of the British colonies. By virtue of his descent from Gen. Anthony W. White, he was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and he prepared for this organization an illusti-ated memoir of Kosciusko, which was printed j)rivatcly (New York, 1883).

EVANS, Augusta Jane, author, b. in Columbus, Ga., 8 May, 1835. When a child she removed with her father to Texas, residing in San Antonio from 1847 till 1849, when the family settled in Mobile, Ala. She was educated almost entirely by her mother. While her parents lived in the frontier town of San Antonio the Mexican war was in prog- ress, and that town was a place of rendezvous for the soldiers sent out to re-enforce Gen. Taylor. She afterward entered a school in Mobile, but deli- cate health compelled her to leave it. During the civil war Miss Evans was an active, zealous sympa- thizer with the south, and a benefactor to the sol- diers that were stationed near her country home. An encampment a short distance from her residence was named in her honor, '• Camp Beulah," and there she was a constant visitor among the sick and the dying. Miss Evans married in 1868 L. ]\I. Wilson, of Mobde. Her novels have become widely popular. She is the author of '• Inez, a Tale of the Alamo," anonymous (New York, 1856) ; " Beulah," the novel that established her reputation (1859); "Macaria" (Richmond, 1863); "St. Elmo" (New York, 1866): "Vashti" (1869); "Infelice" (1875); and " At the Mercy of Tiberius " (1887).

EVANS, Caleb, English clergyman, b. in Bristol, England, in 1737; d. in 1791. He was a Baptist clergyman, and received the degree of D. D. Dr. Evans was an advocate of American independence, and published " A Letter to Rev. John Wesley," imder the signature " Americanus," on his " Calm Address to the American Colonies" (London, 1775), and a " Reply to Rev. Mr. Fletcher's Vindication of Wesley" (Bristol. 1776).

EVANS, David Reid, lawyer, b. in Westminster, England, 20 Feb., 1769 ; d. near Winn's Bridge, Fairfield district, S. C, 8 March, 1843. Pie came to South Carolina with his father in 1784, was educated at jMount Zion college, studied law. and was admitted to the bar in 1796. In 1800 he acted as second to Thomas Baker in a duel with Daniel Brown, in which both the principals were killed. He was a member of the legislature in 1800-'4, was solicitor of the middle judicial circuit in 1804-'ll, and was then elected to congress as a Democrat, serving in 1813-'5, and declining a renomination on account of failing health. He was in the state senate in 1818 and 1832, was first president of the Fairfield Bible society, and a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church for thirty years. He bequeathed $8,000 to benevolent societies.

EVANS, De Scott, artist, b. in Boston, Wayne CO., Ind., 28 March. 1847. He was at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, in 1863-5, studied art by himself, and opened a studio in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, giving his attention to portrait-painting. After studying under Bouguereau in Paris, in 1877-'8, he returned to Cleveland, and became instructor and co-director in the Academy of fine arts there. He is specially skilful in painting draperies. His genre pictures include "The First Snowfall," "Grandma's Visitors," "Day before the Wedding,"