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He was judge of the county court; and in 1859 was a member of the Georgia state senate. He served in the confederate army

Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology; and other works.

as major, colonel, brigadier-general and acting major-general in the army of northern Virginia. He is the author of Military History of Georgia. Evans, Britton Duroc, physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 1, 1858, in Bridgetown, Md. In 1885 he graduated from the college of _ physicians and surBaltimore, geons at Md. For many years he was a physician to the Pennsylvania railroad company and the Penn mutual insurance company, and was assistant superintendent of the Maryland hospital for the insane and also medical superintendent of the Maryland institution for the feebleminded. Since 1893 he has been medical director of the New Jersey state hospital at Morris Plains. He is a member of the American association for the advancement of science; a member of the American medical psychological association; and a member of numerous other medical and scientific socie-

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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. He died in 1897 by drowning with his two daughters in the ill-fated Borgama, the French boat that was wrecked off New-

foundland coast. Evans, Elisha Nero, clergyman, founder, was born Jan. 19, 1857, in Birmingham, Ala.j His first pastorate was at Little Rock, Art.; where he founded the Winfield memorial church. He was for four years pastor of Nonro, La. Evans, Mrs. Elizabeth Edson Gibson, litterateur, author, was born March 8, 1832, in Newport, N.H. She was educated in private schools at Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1868 she married Professor

Edward Payson Evans and has since resided in Europe. She is the author of The Abuse of Maternity Laura, an American Girl; The Story of Kasper Hauser; The Story of Louis XVII of France; A History of Relig;

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congressman, was bom in elected a representative from New York to the twentieth congress, but resigned. He died in New York. Evans, David Reid, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1769, in Eng-

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He served in the state legislature in 1800-03; and in 1804-11 was solicitor for the middle district of South Carolina. In 1813-15 he was a representative from South Carolina to the thirteenth congress; and in 1818 and 1822 was a member of the state

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Evans, Edward Payson, educator, journalist, author, was born Dec. 8, 1831, in Remsen.N.Y. In 1854 he graduated from the university of Michigan and in 1856-57 filled a professorship in Carroll college of

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Wis. In 1862-70 was a professor modern languages

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Michigan and since 1884 has been connected with the AUgemeine Zeitung of Munich. He is the author of Progressive German Read;

Translation of Stahr's Life and Works Lessing; Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture; The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals: er;

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artist, was 28, 1847, in Boston, Ind. He became

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ions; also Transplanted Manners; Confession; Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Donniges; The Christ Myth;

and .other works. Evans, Elizabeth Hewlings, poet, was in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pa.

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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, Evan, clergyman, was bom in Wales. He became a leader, and had such power that many visiting Philadelphia were deeply impressed by his preaching; and formed congregations when they returned to their homes. He died in October, 1721 in Harford county, Md. Evans, Evan William, educator, was bom in 1827 in Wales. In 1855-57 he was a tutor in Yale university. He was also a mining engineer; and on the foundation of Cornell university he was the first professor appointed, occupying the chair of mathematics there till 1872. He was regarded as the best Celtic scholar in the United States. 22, 1874, in Ithaca, N.Y.

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Evans, Frederick William, lecturer, author, 9, 1808, in England. In 1838elder among the Shakers of Lebanon, N.Y. He was the author of Compendium of Origin, History and Doctrines of Shakers; Shaker Communism; Autobiogra-

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