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EVANS 371 EVE council, prepared an ordinance, providing a superintendent ot schools ; he also inaugu- rated the first city high school, and the present educational system. From 1853 to 1855 he led the way in founding the Northwestern Uni- versity, and was the first president of the trus- tees, a position held until death. He in- duced the legislature to pass the bill, relieving the university from taxation, and granting valuable lands. He, himself, gave it as much as $100,000, and his name was attached to the site called Evanston, He was an organizer of the Hospital of the Lakes, later named Mercy Hospital. When he was well estab- lished, his father relented and advanced him money for investments in Chicago real estate, which were judiciously made, laying the foun- dation of a fortune. Through Bishop Simpson, he became an ardent Methodist, and was one of the projectors of the Methodist Book Con- cern, and of the Northwestern Christian Ad- vocate, and a builder of the Methodist Church Block, one of Chicago's first office buildings. His greatest financial effort was the raising of the funds to build the Chicago and Fort Wayne Railroad, now a part of the Pennsyl- vania sj'stem, and to Dr. Evans this system owes its terminal in the heart of the city. His activities overflowed in so many other directions that after eleven years in the Rush Medical College, and in practice, he resigned both. In the early sixties he was active in national politics, and was a member of the convention nominating Lincoln. Lincoln made Evan? Territorial Governor of Colorado (1862). He took an active part in attempting to have Colorado admitted to the Union ( 1864- 5), and when Andrew Johnson vetoed the "Colorado Bill" he went out of politics. A record of his thirty-five years in Colorado would fill a volume. Colorado was then a wilderness, but he lived to see it the leading state of the Rocky Mountain country. He built the railroad from Cheyenne to Denver. In his time new mines were opened, colonies founded, and towns started. He was interested in installing cable cars in Denver, later sup- planted by electricity. A business block in Denver, and the Evans School perpetuate his memory. A station on the Denver Pacific also has his name. A massive peak of the Rockies, the tallest in the state, was named for him, by act of the Colorado Legislature. He had a large part in creating Colorado Seminary, the pioneer school of higher learn- ing in the territory, which became the Uni- versity of Denver. His gifts in cash exceeded $150,000, besides donations of lands. He con- tinued to be president of the board of trustees up to death. He also did much for Colorado Women's College. On December 11, 1838, Dr. Evans was married to Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Canby of Ohio, who died in Chicago, October 9, 1850. All of their four children died in childhood, except Josephine, who be- came the wife of Hon. Samuel T. El- bert, Governor of Colorado (1873-74). She died in Denver, and as a loving tribute, Dr. Evans built the Lawrence Street Methodist Church of Denver, as a memorial. On August 18, 1853, Dr. Evans married Margaret, daugh- ter of Samuel and Susan F. Gray, of Bowdoin- ham, Maine. Mrs. Evans died in Denver, leav- ing four children, Wiliam Gray, Margaret G., Evan Elbert, and Anna. Full of years and honors, Dr. Evans quietly passed away, July 3, 1897. F. D. Du SOUCHF.T Eve, Joseph Adams (1805-1886). Joseph Adams Eve, obstetrician and g> ne- cologist, son of Dr. Joseph Eve by his second wife, Hannah Singleterry, was born near Charleston, Soulh Carolina, August 1, 1805. He came of an old loyalist family of Philadelphia, who, because of political opinions, sacrificed their property and left the country at the beginning of the Revolution and settled in Jamaica, West Indies. His father, Dr. Joseph Eve, was a highly cultivated man of decided inventive and poetic genius. He invented the brush and roller cotton gin, and was the author of many poems. Joseph Eve, Sr., returned to the United States about the year 1800, and engaged in planting, first near Charleston, South Carolina, and afterwards near Augusta, Georgia. Dr. Eve received his education in the coun- try schools of his day, but acquired a know- ledge of Greek and Latin and several of the modern languages, unassisted by teachers. He studied medicine under Dr. Milton Antony (q. v.), and attended his first course of lectures in Liverpool, 1827, graduating M. D. from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1828, and after this was associated with Dr. Antony in establishing at Augusta the Georgia Acad- emy of Medicine. This institution was a hos- pital for patients, as well as a school for the instruction of students. In 1833 it became ihe Medical College of Georgia, and in 1873 was made the medical department of the Uni- versity of Georgia. In the first faculty of the Medical College of Georgia, Eve held the chair of materia niedica and therapeutics, but on the death of Dr. Antony (1839') was trans-