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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. freedom league to the peace congress of 1891; and in 1893 a delegate for the educational congress, and subsequently a delegate to the woman's congress, and was eight times a delegate to Europe. She is president of the international peace league; vicepresident of the universal peace union; and vice-president of the woman's national press association. She has made a national reputation as a lecturer, journalist and philanthropist, Islander,

and is now editor of The Rhode which her husband founded in 1895.

Evans, Nathan, lawyer, congressman, was born June 24, 1804, in Belmont county, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for Guernsey county for four years. In 1847-51 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirtieth

and thirty-first congresses. He died in Guernsey county, Ohio. Evans, Nathan George, soldier, was born

He distinFeb. 6, 1824, in Marion, S.C. guished himself in the war of 1858; and resigned in 1861 to enter the confederate He attained the rank of brigadierservice. general; and surrendered with Lee in 1865. He died Nov. 30, 1868, in Midway, Ala. Evans, Nathaniel, clergyman, author, poet, He was an in Philadelphia, Pa. episcopal clergyman stationed as a missionary in Gloucester county, N.J. He was the author of Poems on Several Occasions. He

was born

died in Gloucester county, N.J.

Evans, Nelson Wiley, soldier, lawyer, auwas born June 4, 1842, in Sardinia, He served in the civil war; and be-

thor, Ohio.

assistant adjunct general. Since 1866 he has practiced law in Portsmouth, Ohio. He is the author of History of Adams County, Ohio; History of Scioto County, Ohio; and History of Taxation in Ohio.

came acting

Evans, Oliver, inventor, author, was born He constructed in 1755, in Newport, Del. the

first

high-pressure

steam-engine.

He

The Young Engineer's Guide; and Miller and Millwright's Guide. He died April 21, 1819, in New York City.

was the author

of

Norton, educator, author, Sept. 6, 1867, in Montreal, Canada. He- received the rudiments of his education in the public schools;

Evans, Percy

was born

1890 graduated with B.S. degree of the from McGill university; and in 1893 received the degree of Ph.D. from Leipzig university. He has attained success in edu-

in

cational since

work;

1894

has

and been

instructor and professor of chemistry in Purdue university at La Fayette, Ind. He has contributed to various educational and scientific journals; and has made valuable researches in chem-

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He is the author of An Introductory Course in Quantitative Analysis. Evans, Rohley Dunglison, naval officer, author, was born Aug. 18, 1846, in Floyd county, Va. He graduated from the United States naval academy; in 1863 became ensign; in 1866 commissioned lieutenant; and in 1878 commander. He had command of the flagship Iowa during the Spanish-American war of 1898; and attained the rank of rear-admiral. He is the author of A SailRecollections of Forty Years of or's Log

istry.

—

Naval

Life.

Evans, Thomas, congressman, was horn In 1897-1801 he was a representative from Virginia to the fifth and

in Virginia.

sixth congresses.

He

died in Virginia.

Evans, Thomas, litterateur, author, was born in 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Quaker controversialist of Philadelphia. He was the author of Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends.

He

died

May

25, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Evans, Thomas, manufacturer, was born In 1869 he Oct. 5, 1842, in Pittsburg, Pa. organized the firm of Reddick and company of Pittsburg, Pa.; and was head of the company until 1881 when he built a furnace of his own. In 1892 a factory was erected in Marion, Ind., which is the largest

lamp chimney factory

in the world.

Evans, Thomas Wiltberger, dentist, au^ thor, was born Dec. 23, 1823, in Philadel-

He resided in Paris from 1848; and through whose aid the Empress Eugenie escaped from that city in 1870. He was the author of History of the American Amphia, Pa.

bulance in Paris during the Siege, 1870-71; Sanitary Institutions during the AustroPrussian-Italian Conflict, 1868; and several works in French. He died Nov. 14, 1897, in Paris, France. Evans, "Walter, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1842, in Barren county, Ky. He entered the union army in 1861 and served throughout the civil war. After the close of the war he was engaged in the practice of law at HopkinSville, Ky. and was a delegate to the national 1 republican conventions of 1868, In 1872, and 1880. 1871 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; and in 3 872 was elected a state senator. He removed to Louisville; and in 1883 was appointed commissioner of internal revenue in the treasury department at Washington. In 1895-99 he was a representative to the fifty- fourth and fifty- fifth congresses as a Since 1899 he has been judge republican. of the United States district court for the

western district of Kentucky.