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ingtou occupying two weeks. At the close of the term in 1813 he was appointed by President Madison U.S. minister to the Netherlands, hold- ing that embassy throughout Madison's second administration. He was a representative from Boston in the 16th and 17th congresses, 1819-23; was gov- ernor of Massacliu- setts, 1824 and 1835, and died in office while serving his sec- ond term. During his first term he enter- tained General Lafay- ette at his summer residence, Shirley Place, Eoxburj, near ' Boston, the occasion

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functions accorded by the citizens of the new re- public to the gallant soldier on his last visit to America. Harvard college conferred on Governor Eustis the degrees of A.M. in 178-1 and LL.D. in 1823. He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 6, 182-5.

EVANS, Augusta Jane, see Wilson, Augusta Evans.

EVANS, Clement Anselm, historian, was born in Stewart county, Ga., Feb. 25, 1833; son of Anselm and Sarah (Bryan) Evans; grandson of John Evans and of Clement Bryan, and a de- scendant of William and Alice (Needham) Bryan of Virginia. He was educated in his native county, was graduated at the Augusta, Ga., law school in 1853 and practised in Georgia, 1852-61. He was judge of the Stewart county covirt, 18.54- 55; state senator, 1859-60, and in 1861 joined the Confederate army with the rank of major, re- ceiving promotions to the ranks of colonel, briga- dier-general and acting major-general. He served under "Stonewall " Jackson, Ewell, Early and Gordon in the army of Northern Virginia commanded by R.E. Lee, 1861-65, engaging in the battles of that army, receiving five wounds, and surrendering at Appomattox. After the war he became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal churchSouth, and served activelyuntil 1890when he discontinued on account of his wounds. He was state commander for Georgia of the United Confederate veterans for seven years from 1893, and was a prominent candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination for governor of Georgia in 1894. He edited the Canfedcmte ISWitani Hhtoi-y C12 vols.) and is the autlior of MiHtanj IliMnnj oj

EVANS, De Scott, iiainter, was born in Bos- ton, Wayne county, Ind.. March 38, 1847. He attended Miami university, 1863-65; studied art

by liimself and opened a studio at Cleveland, Ohio, where he painted portraits, 1874-77. He studied in Paris under Bougereau, 1877-78, and on his return to the United States became an in- structor and co-director in the Academy of fine arts at Cleveland. He was a painter of genre pictures and portraits, and became especially suc- cessful as a painter of draperies. Among his genre pictures are: The First SnoirfaU, Grandma's Visit, Day Before the Wedding, and The Flirtation. He exhibited in the National academy in New York city The Ansicer (1881); Old Clock (1882); Mornimj (1883); Wading in the Brook (1883); Birth- dmj Card (1884); Fun at the Sttidio (1884); A/ler ■ the Pose (1885); Love Letter (1886), and Christmas Morning (ISSG). He also painted a group of the Garfield family entitled ]]'inter Fi-ening at Lawn- field, placed in the reception room of the Garfield monument at Cleveland.

EVANS, Edward Payson, educator, was born in Remsen, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1833; son of the Rev. Evan and Mary Ann (Williams) Evans, who came from Wales to the United States imme- diately after their marriage. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1854, taught in Hernando, Miss., in 1855, and held a professor- ship in Carroll college, Waukesha, Wis., 1856-57. He studied in Europe, 1857-60; was instructor in modern languages at the University of Micliigan, 1862-63, and professor of modern languages and literature there, 1863-70, resigning the latter year to revisit Europe. He became connected with the Allgemeine Zeitung, Munich, Bavaria, in 1884; with Vie Xation. Berlin, in 1890, and later with Bliiiter fi'ir literariscliK Unterli.altnny. Leipzig, and Litera- ture-Central blatt fur Deutschlaiid; and contributed regularly to all these journals and to The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly and The Popular Science 3Ionthly. He wrote articles on Lessing, Jean Paul Richter aiid Schiller for "Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature. " He became known as a writer of review and magazine articles and an authority on Sanskrit and other oriental lan- guages. Among the more important of his publi- cations are: Ab)-iss der deutsehen Literatnrgeschiclite (1869); a Progressive German Peader (1870); trans- lations of Stalir's Life and l]'orks of Lessing (2 vols., 1866); and Coquerel's First Historical Trans- formations of Christianity (1867); Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (1896); Evolutional Ethics and Animal P,-iychology (1898); Beitriige znr amerikanischen Litteratur-und Kullurgesi-hichte (1898); The Criminal Prosecution and Cupitcd Pun- ishment of Animals (1899).

EVANS, Elizabeth Edson (Gibson), autlior, was born in Newport, N.H., March 8, ls:i3; daughter of Dr. Willard Putnam and Lucia Field (Williams) Gibson. She began to write in prose and verse wlien very young. She was married