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Rh their tour through the larger cities of the East, and as far west as Cincinnati, Milwaukee and St. Louis. His bonhommie and affable sociability helped to make the trip an agreeable one to the visiting strangers, and to draw closer the bonds of amity and friendship between Germany and the United States, two peoples whose common origin and common faith in civilization and Christianity should always promote their close alliance.

He was married in 1870 to Charlotte Taylor, daughter of Franck Taylor, of Washington, District of Columbia, a granddaughter of General Daniel Morgan, and a sister of Henry Clay Taylor, who as captain, commanded the battleship Indiana in the battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898, and of Captain Daniel Morgan Taylor of the ordnance department, U. S. A. Of Admiral Evans' three children, the son, Franck, is in the naval service; and during the Spanish war, the two daughters, Mrs. Marsh and Miss Virginia Evans, became volunteer hospital nurses for our soldiers.