1853–1905

Introduction

Born: Au­gust 4, 1853, Grand­view, In­di­ana.

Died: Feb­ru­ary 9, 1905, at his home in Tell Ci­ty, In­di­ana.

Buried: Green­wood Ce­me­te­ry, Tell Ci­ty, In­di­ana.

Biography

A phy­si­cian, po­et, musician, and jour­nal­ist, Evans mar­ried in 1876.

Two years lat­er, dur­ing the yel­low fe­ver epi­de­mic of 1878, he vol­un­tar­ily put him­self in harm’s way, ser­ving as a hos­pi­tal phy­si­cian.

He went on to be­come the south­ern ed­it­or for the St. Lou­is Me­di­cal Jour­nal (1884–85) and con­trib­ut­ed to the Wa­ver­ly Ma­ga­zine, the In­di­an­apo­lis Sun, and oth­er pe­ri­od­ic­als. He is al­so re­mem­bered as the au­thor of nu­mer­ous hu­mor­ous ar­ti­cles.

At one time, Am­eri­can pre­si­dent James Garf­ield of­fered to make him Am­eri­can con­sul in Co­logne, Ger­ma­ny, but he dec­lined.

Sources

Lyrics

Music

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Ev­ans (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),