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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Eustis, George, lawyer, congressman, waa born Sept. 28, 1828, in New Orleans, La. In 1855-59 he was a representative to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. During the civil war he served as private secretary to John M. Mason, when the latter was confederate commissioner to France. He died

March

15,

1872, in France.

Eustis, George, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 20, 1796, in Boston, Mass. He was attorney-general of Louisiana; a member of the constitutional convention of 1845; and in 1846-52 was chief, justice of the supreme court. He died Dec. 23, 1858, in New Orleans, La. Eustis, Henry Lawrence, civil engineer, waa born Feb. 1, 1819, at Boston, Mass. In 184345 he assisted in the construction of Fort Warren and Lovell's island sea-wall in Boston harbor. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863; and resigned in 1864, owing to impaired health. He died Jan. 11, 1885, in

Eustis,

Cambridge, Mass.

James

Biddle,

soldier,

lawyer.

United States senator, was born Aug.

New

27,

He

served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1872 and was a member of the state senate 1874-77. In 1877-79 and 1885-91 he was United States senator from Louisiana. He died Sept. 9, 1899, in Newport, R.I. 1834, in

Orleans, La.



Eustis, Percy Sprague, manager, was bom Feb. 16, 1857, in Milton, Mass. Until 1870 he was educated in the private schools of Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 1876 entered railroad employ in Nebraska with the Burlington and Missouri railway company. In 1880-8J he was chief clerk in charge of the passenger department; and in 1881-88 was general passenger and- ticket agent for the same company. In 1888 he was appointed general passenger agent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, with headquarters at Chicago, 111.; and since 1902 he has been passenger traffic manager of the entire system of that corporation. Eustis, William Henry, lawyer, statesman, was born July 17, 1845, in Oxbow, N.'S. He was educated at the Wesleyan university and Columbia school of law. In 1893-94 he was mayor of Minneapolis, Minn. In 1902 he was a special United States commissioner to the Hawaiian Islands; and in 1898 was a candidate for governor of Minnesota. He is a

noted lawyer of Minand neapolis, Minn. prominently identified with the business and

public afl'airs of his state. Eustis, William, soldier, physician, congressman, governor, was born June 10, 1753,

399

Cambridge; Mass. At the beginning of the war he was appointed surgeon of a regiment in

and afterward hospital surgeon. In 1801-05 and 1819-23 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the seventh, eighth, sixteenth and seventeenth congresses. In 180913 he was secretary of war. In 1815 he was sent as ambassador to Holland; and was the twelfth governor of Massachusetts in 182325. He died Feb. 6, 1825, in Boston, Mass. Evans, Alexander, civil engineer, congressin Elkton, Md. In 1847-53 he was a representative from Maryland to

man, was born

the thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty-second congresses. He died in Elkton, Md. soldier, merchant, poet, 1814, in Middletown, Ky.

Evans, Alexander,

was born Nov.

9,

served in the army in 1847-48; and in 1861 became major in the confederate service. He was the author of two volumes of poems entitled Jineas ; and Fashions. He died

He

Lonacoming, Md. Evans, Alvin, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1845, in Ebeiisburg, Pa. From 1*73 he practiced law in his native city. In 1901-05 he was a republican representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth congresses. He died in 1909 in Ebensburg, Pa. Evans, Andrew Wallace, soldier, was bom July 6, 1829, in Elkton, Md. He served in the civil war; and in 1890 was brevetted

in

brigadier-general of volunteers.

Evans, Anthony Walton White, civil engiwas born Oct. 31, 1817, in New Brunswick, N.J. His first professional employment was on the enlargement of the Erie canal. He was made assistant on the survey and neer,

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 Campbell to Chili and became his principal assistant in the construction of the Capiapo railroad. Subsequently he entered the employ of the Chilian

in the construction of one of its railroads, and still later was appointed chief engineer of the African and Tacua railway company in Peru.

government as chief engineer

died Nov. 28, 1886, in New York City. Evans, Beverly Daniel, lawyer, jurist, waa born May 21, 1865, in Sandersville, Ga. In 1884-89 he practiced law; and in 1886-87 was a representative in the Georgia state legislature. In 1899-1904 he was a judge of the

He

He is associate justice of the state supreme court of Georgia for the term of 1904-10. Evans, Charles Eactor, actor, theatrical manager, was born Sept. 6, 1856, in Rochester, N.Y. In 1872 he made his first appear-

circuit court.

ance in

a

sketch

with James Nile, with

partnership for eleven starred in Napoleon BonaThe Girl from Paris; and others. Evans, Clement Anselm, soldier, lawyer, state senator, author, was born in Georgia.

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he

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