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Rh and "The Flirtation." He has sent to exhibitions of the National academy in New York city " The Answer " (1881) ; " Old Clock " (1882) ; " Morning " and " Wading in the Brook " (1883) ; " Birthday Card " and " Fun at the Studio " (1884) : " After the Pose " (1885) : and " Love- Letter " and " Christmas Morning" (1886). He is now (1887) engaged on a picture of the Garfield family, entitled " Winter Evening at Lawnfield," to be placed in the recep- tion-room of the Garfield monument at Cleveland.

EVANS, Edward Payson, scholar, b. in Remsen, N. Y., 8 Dec., 1833. His father was a Welsh Presbyterian clergyman. Edward removed to Michigan in 1850, and was graduated at the state university in 1854. He taught in an academy in Hernando, Miss., in 1855, and was professor in Carroll college, Waukesha, Wis., in 1856-'7. After spending the years from 1857 till 1860 in travel and study abroad, he became in 1861 professor of modern languages in Michigan university, but resigned in 1870 and went abroad, where he has since been engaged in literary work. Since 1884 he has been connected with the “Allgemeine Zeitung,” of Munich, Bavaria, and has contributed to it many articles on the literary, artistic, and intellectual life of the United States. Prof. Evans has made a specialty of oriental languages. Besides many articles in reviews and magazines, he has published “Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte” (New York, 1869) and a “Progressive German Reader” (1870), and has translated Stahr's “Life and Works of Lessing,” with an introduction (2 vols., Boston, 1866), and Coquerel's “First Historical Transformations of Christianity” (1867). He has in preparation (1887) a work on “Animal Symbolism in Art and Literature,” and a “History of German Literature,” to be completed in five volumes, two of which are already written, though not published.—His wife, Elizabeth Edson Gibson, author, b. in Newport, N. H., 8 March, 1833, was educated at a high school for young ladies in Ann Arbor, Mich., and has done some work as an artist. She has contributed essays and short stories to magazines, and has published “The Abuse of Maternity” (Philadelphia, 1875), and “Laura, an American Girl,” a novel (1884).

EVANS, Elizabeth Hewlings, poet, b. in Philadelphia in 1818; d. in Amelia county, Va., in 1855. She was a daughter of William S. Stockton, of Philadelphia, and in 1839 married Dr. M. F. T. Evans, of Amelia county, Va. Mrs. Evans contributed poems to various periodicals, and was widely known to the public. A volume of her poems, with a preface by her brother, the Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, was published shortly before her death (Philadelphia, 1851).

EVANS, Evan, clergyman, b. in Wales; d. in Harford county, Md., in October, 1721. He was educated in England, entered the ministry of the established church, and, on the grant of a royal bounty of £50 to Christ church, Philadelphia, was appointed its second rector in 1700 by Dr. Comp- ton, lord-bishop of London. He at once became a leader, and had such power that many visiting Philadelphia were deeply impressed by his preach- ing, and formed congregations when they returned to their homes. His duties, not the least of which was his work among young men over whom he exer- cised great influence, were thereby much increased. In visiting these congregations he often travelled fifty or sixty miles, through Pennsylvania, West Jersey, and Delaware. The chief of them were Radnor and Oxford, and his chuix-h at the former place, where there was a colony of Episcopalians irom Radnorshire, Wales, is represented in the accompanying illustration. He went to England in 1707 on private business, and urged that a bishop should be sent to the colonies, and on his return in 1709 brought the communion service presented by Queen Anne to Christ church. He visited England again in 1716 "on some family concerns," and while there received the degree of

D. D. from one of the universities, and was ap- pointed missionary at Oxford and Radnor, in addi- dition to Christ church. Having been presented to St. George's parish, Harford co., by the governor of Maryland, he resigned his former charge on 15 Feb., 1718. While on a visit shortly afterward, he was seized with an apoplectic fit in the pulpit of Christ church on Sunday, and died on the fol- lowing Wednesday. During his ministry he bap- tized 800 persons, about 500 of whom had be- longed to the society of Friends, whose members flocked to hear him in great numbers.

EVANS, Evan William, scholar, b. near Swan- sea, Wales, in 1827 : d. in Ithaca, N. Y., 22 May, 1874. He came to this country with his parents when a child, and was graduated at Yale in 1851. After studying theology in New Haven for a year he be- came principal of Delaware institute, Franklin, N. Y., and in 1855-'7 was a tutor in Yale, accept- ing in the latter year the chair of natural philoso- phy and astronomy in Marietta college, Ohio, where he remained until 1864. He was then occu- pied for three years as a mining engineer, spent one year in European travel, and on the founda- tion of Cornell university was the first professor appointed, occupying the chair of mathematics there till 1872, when he resigned on account of failing health. Prof. Evans- was regarded as the best Celtic scholar in the United States.

EVANS, George, senator, b. in Hallowell, Me., 12 Jan., 1797: d. in Portland, Me., 5 April, 1867. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1815, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1818. He began to practise at Gardiner, but afterward removed to Hallowell, and attained eminence as a criminal lawyer. He was a member of the legislature in 1825-'8, and was speaker of the house in his last year. He was then chosen to congress as a Whig, and served six terms, from 1829 till 1841, when he was elected to the U. S. senate, and served in 1841-7. During his twelve years in the house, although his party was in the minority, he exerted a commanding influence. In the senate he was chairman of the committee on finance. Henry Clay is reported to have said that Mr. Evans knew more about the tariff than any other public man in the country. His speeches on important and complicated economical questions were very effective. He was a candidate for the vice-presidential nomination when Gen. Taylor was nominated for president, and after the latter's accession in 1849 was appointed chairman of the Mexican claims com-