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of the board of education ; was twice ma3'or of the city ; was a Republican representative from the 3d district of Tennessee in the 51st congress, 1S89-91 ; was first assistant postmaster-general in the administration of President Harrison; claimed to have been elected governor of Tennes-

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see in 1894, but was counted out by the state leg- islatiu-e; was delegate-at-large to tlie Republican national conventions at Minneapolis, 1893, and St. Louis, 1896; was narrowly defeated for the nomination for vice-president of the United States in 1896, and was appointed United States commissioner of pensions in March, 1897, by Presi- dent McKinley.

EVANS, Hugh Davey, author, was born in B^iUimore, Md., April 26, 1793. He was admitted to the Baltimore bar in 181.5, and was noted as a constitutional lawyer and as a counsel in ecclesi- astical law applying to the Protestant Episcopal church. He edited The True Church, a high-church periodical, 1843-56, and was a contributor to the Re ij inter, Philadelphia, Pa., the Clmrchman, New York city, the New York Church Monthly, and the Baltimore Monitor, which last he edited, 1857-58. As a member of the Marylr.ad colonization society he prepared a code of laws for the Maryland col- ony in Liberia (1847). He was lecturer in civil and ecclesiastical law at the college of St. James, Md., 1853-64. He supported the Federal govern- ment during the period of the civil war, and his voice and pen were potent in America and Europe in defending the measures of the government. He received from St. Jamas the degree of LL.D. in 1853. He published: Es.'iay on Pleading (1837) ; Maryland Common Lam Practice (1836, rev. ed., 1867); The Validity of Anglican Ordinations (1844; 3d ser., 1851); TheophHus Americanus (1851): and Ex.'iay on the Prohstaiit Episcopal Church in the United States ( I.S55). His posthinu- ous works were : Treati.se on the Christian Doctrine of Marriaye (1870), and Memoir of the Rev. Hall HarriKon (1870-). He died in Baltimore, Md.. Julv 16. 1S6S.

EVANS, Jervice Gaylord, educator, was born in Marshall county, 111.. Dec. 19, 1833; son of Joshua and Elisabeth (Radcliff) Evans, and

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grandson of Thomas Evans, who came from VV'ales. His mother's parents were natives of Germany. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan uni- versity, and in 1854 became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. He was married June 14. 1857, to Nettie G. Gardiner of Powell, Ohio. He preached in various places until 1878 when he became president of Hedding college, 111., resigning in 1878 to accept the presidency of Chaddock college, Quincy, 111. In 1879 he re- turned to the pulpit, and in 1889 again became president of Hedding college. He was for six years secretary of the Central Illinois conference, and for four years presiding elder. He was a delegate to the general conference in 1876, 1884, 1893 and 1896, and in 1884 was a delegate to the centennial conference of American Methodism, held in Baltimore. In the General conference of 1893. held in Omaha, he was chairman of the committee on temperance and pro- hibition, and from that time was a mem- ber of the permanent committee on tem- perance, by appoint- ment of the General conference. He re- ceived the degrees of A.M. from Quincy college in 1870, D.D. from Chaddock col- lege in 1884, LL. D. from Chicago college of science in 1889. He is the author of: Genesis and Geolor/y (1875) ; Tobacco (1877); The Pulpit and Politics (1886); The Woman Question (1887); Christianity and Science vs. Evolution and Injidelity (1895); Parental Olili- gation (1898): Christian Citizenship (1898). and numeroiis pamphlets, lectures and sermons.

EVANS, Joe, painter, was born in New York city. Oct. 29. 1857; son of Joseph Tubbs and Czarina (Fuller) Evans, and grandson of Seth and Lois (Tubbs) Evans, and of Cyrenius M. and A. (Smith) Fuller. He first studied art in the National academy of design and then spent tlnve years at the Beaux arts in Paris, wliere he was a pupil of Gerome. He was one of the original members of the Art students" league, was elected its president in 1891, and was twice re elected to that office. He was a member of the Society of American artists and for three years its secre- tary. He died in New York city, April 23, 1898.

EVANS, John, geologist, was born in Ports- mouth, N.H., Feb. 14, 1812; son of Richard Evans, a judge of the N-^w Hampshire supreme court. He was graduated at the St. Louis medi-

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