Evans (II)
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.
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Evans (III)
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.
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Evans (IV)
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.
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Evanston
a city in Cook co., Ill.; on Lake Michigan and on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads; 12 miles N. of Chicago. It includes the villages of Rogers Park and South Evanston; is delightfully laid out; and has gas and electric light plants; electric and ele vated railroads to Chicago; Holly sys tem of waterworks, weekly newspapers, National bank. It is the seat of Northwestern University (M. E.) founded in 1851, largely endowed and of high re pute, with a library and a museum. It is the seat also of the Garrett Biblical Institute, Winchell Academy, and of the Evanston College for Women, founded in 1871. The Dearbon Observatory was transferred here from Chicago in 1888, and dedicated the following year as a department of Northwestern University. Pop. (1910) 24,978; (1920) 37,215.
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Evansville
a city port of entry, and the county-seat of Vanderburg co., Ind., on the Ohio river, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, Illinois Central, Louisville and Nashville, Southern and several other railroads: 185 miles W. of Louisville. It is on a high bank at a bend in the river midway between the falls and the junction with the Mississippi; is the trade center of a rich agricultural and coal region; and has the finest wharf and city front on the Ohio or Mississippi river. It has excellent shipping facilities, with 10 packet lines, iron and brass foundries, harness and saddlery, steam engine and boiler, furniture, boot and shoe, pottery, metal goods, tobacco, and chemical plants. The city contains the Evansville Insane, St. Mary's, and United States Marine Hospitals, County Infirmary, Evans Hall, United States Government Building, public day school for the deaf, a business co college, public library, high school, daily and weekly newspapers, 3 National and several private banks, and an assessed property valuation of over $25,000,000. Pop. (1910) 69,647; (1920) 85,264.
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Evaporation
the conversion of a liquid or solid by heat into vapor or steam, which becomes dissipated in the atmosphere in the manner of an elastic fluid. The process of evaporation is constantly going on at the surface of the earth, but principally at the surface of the sea, of lakes, rivers, and pools. The vapor thus formed, being specifically lighter than atmospheric air, rises to considerable heights above the earth's surface; and afterward , by a partial condensation, forms clouds, and finally descends in rain .
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Evarts
WILLIAM MAXWELL, an American lawyer; born in Boston , Mass., Feb. 6, 1818; was graduated at Yale College in 1837 and studied at the Harvard Law School. In 1841 he began the practice of law in New York City; in 1849-1853 was assistant district attorney; and in 1868 was the principal counsel for President Johnson in his impeachment trial. In 1868-1869 he was Attorney-General of the United States; in 1877 principal counsel for the Republican party before the Electoral Commission on the Hayes-Tilden election returns; in 1877-1881 United States Secretary of State; and in 1885-1891 United States Senator from New York. He also represented the United States in the Alabama-claims case, and was the principal counsel for Henry Ward Beecher in his defense against the charges preferred by Theodore Tilton. He was famous as an orator. He died in New York, Feb. 2, 1901.
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