Evans
Evans names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Evans THOMAS WILLIAMS, an American dentist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS WILLIAMS, an American dentist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 23, 1823; studied dentistry and practiced in Maryland and later in Lancaster, Pa.; made a specialty of saving teeth by filling. In seeking a substitute for gold foil he mixed rubber and sulphur, which make a black substance instead of a white one. Because of the unfavorable color he laid the substance aside and gave it no more thought, till his mixture was used by others for producing commercial gutta-percha, which he declared he had discovered. In 1848 he went by invitation to Paris as the most skillful American dentist, to attend to the teeth of President Louis Napoleon. During his career in Paris he accumulated a very large fortune. He also won an international reputation as an expert in military sanitation and was one of the founders of the Red Cross Society. His home was the refuge of the Empress Eugénie from the mob on the night of Sept. 4, 1870. Dressed in his wife's clothes, she was taken by him to the Normandy coast, where he secured her escape to England. He died in Paris, Nov. 14, 1896. Dr. Evans bequeathed all of his fortune, estimated at from $8,000,000 to $12,000,000, excepting $250,000, to establish a museum and institute in Philadelphia.
Evans ROBLEY DUNGLISON, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBLEY DUNGLISON, an American naval officer; born in Floyd co., Va.; was graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1863; promoted ensign, Oct. 1, 1863; lieutenant, July 25, 1866; lieutenant-commander, March 12, 1868; commander, in July, 1878; captain, June 27, 1893; and rearadmiral in 1901. During the Civil War he took part in the attack on Fort Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865, and in the land engagement was wounded four times. In 1891 he was in command of the "Yorktown" at Valparaiso, Chile, during the strained relations between the United States and that country. He commanded the "Iowa" in the action of July 3, 1898, off Santiago de Cuba, which resulted in the destruction of the Spanish fleet. He was promoted rear-admiral in 1901 and commanded the Asiatic fleet, 1902; flagship "Kentucky." He was in command of Atlantic fleet, 1905-1907; touring the world in the latter year. He retired Aug. 18, 1908. Publications: "A Sailor's Log" (1901); "An Admiral's Log" (1910). He died in 1912.
Evans SIR SAMUEL THOMAS, a Welsh lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR SAMUEL THOMAS, a Welsh lawyer. He was born in 1859 at Skewen, Neath, and was educated in the board schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and entering politics, was elected to represent Glamorganshire (Mid. Div.) in 1890, continuing to sit in the House of Commons from that constituency till 1910. He became a King's Counsel in 1901, Recorder of Swansea 1906, Solicitor-General 1908, and a Privy Counsellor in 1910, becoming in this last year also President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Courts. He was a 1 Justice of the Peace of Glamorganshire, Pembrokeshire and Beaconshire; Hon. Freeman of the County Borough of Swansea, and of the Borough of Neath. He died in 1918.
Evans SIR ARTHUR JOHN, an English archæologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR ARTHUR JOHN, an English archæologist, born in Nash Mills, Herts, in 1851. He was educated at Oxford and in Germany. He spent 10 years in travel in eastern Europe, especially in the Balkans. From 1884 to 1908 he was keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. In 1893 he undertook investigations in Crete, and these resulted in the discovery of remarkable archæological remains, which gave a new aspect to the history of prehistoric Eu- He wrote "Cretan Pictographs and Præ-Phoenician Script" (1896); He "Scripta Minoa" (1909). was knighted in 1911.
Evans AUGUSTA JANE (WIL- SON)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
AUGUSTA JANE (WIL- SON), an American novelist; born in Columbus, Ga., May 8, 1835. Her writings include: "Inez, a Tale of the Alamo" (1856); "Beulah," the most popular of her novels (1859); "St. Elmo" (1866); "At the Mercy of Tiberius" (1887); "A Speckled Bird" (1902); "Devota" (1907). She died in 1909.
Evans Mary Ann. See Cross
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Mary Ann. See Cross ; Mrs. Mary Ann Evans
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could say only that Sir Arthur Evans's Cretan work "gave a new aspect to the history of prehistoric Europe"; the term he coined for it, Minoan, is now standard, and Knossos, which he began excavating in 1900, is one of the most visited sites in Greece. Evans lived until 1941 and published the four-volume Palace of Minos (1921-35), but his confident concrete reconstructions at Knossos are now treated as much invention as recovery, and his insistence that the Minoans were not Greek was overturned in 1952 when Michael Ventris showed the Linear B tablets Evans had unearthed were written in an early form of Greek. Linear A remains undeciphered. Of the other Evanses here, the dentist's millions did found the institution Collier's promised, now the University of Pennsylvania's dental school; Robley Evans's Atlantic Fleet cruise of 1907 is remembered as the Great White Fleet; and Augusta Jane Evans, whose "St. Elmo" was among the best-selling American novels of the 19th century, is little read today, while the Mary Ann Evans filed under "Cross" by Aiton's is now known everywhere as George Eliot.
Written for this edition, 2026.